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A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
mercredi 10 avril 2024, 00:40 , par Slashdot
In the previous session of Congress, the leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committees brokered a deal with Roger Wicker, the top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, on a bill that would preempt state laws with the exception of the California Consumer Privacy Act and the Biometric Information Privacy Act of Illinois. That measure, titled the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, also created a weaker private right of action than most Democrats were willing to support. Maria Cantwell, Senate Commerce Committee chair, refused to support the measure, instead circulating her own draft legislation. The ADPPA hasn't been reintroduced, but APRA was designed as a compromise. 'I think we have threaded a very important needle here,' Cantwell told The Spokesman Review. 'We are preserving those standards that California and Illinois and Washington have.' APRA includes language from California's landmark privacy law allowing people to sue companies when they are harmed by a data breach. It also provides the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general, and private citizens the authority to sue companies when they violate the law. The categories of data that would be impacted by APRA include certain categories of 'information that identifies or is linked or reasonably linkable to an individual or device,' according to a Senate Commerce Committee summary of the legislation. Small businesses -- those with $40 million or less in annual revenue and limited data collection -- would be exempt under APRA, with enforcement focused on businesses with $250 million or more in yearly revenue. Governments and 'entities working on behalf of governments' are excluded under the bill, as are the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and, apart from certain cybersecurity provisions, 'fraud-fighting' nonprofits. Frank Pallone, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called the draft 'very strong' in a Sunday statement, but said he wanted to 'strengthen' it with tighter child safety provisions. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/09/2039226/a-breakthrough-online-privacy-proposal-hits-congres...
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