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The GDPR is the strictest data privacy law in the world, with few exceptions and hefty fines. In California, these concerns manifested as the California Consumer Protection Act somewhat modeled on the EU’s GDPR. [11] The CCPA’s initial drafting and placement on the 2018 ballot was led by Alastair Mactaggart. [12]
A drive for the United States' first major data privacy legislation has bipartisan support in the divided Congress ahead of a House of Representatives committee hearing on Thursday, though it ...
As the chair of the Senate committee responsible for data privacy, Maria Cantwell was the gatekeeper for any such bill to reach the senate floor. Cantwell, who had her own online privacy bill in draft, had similarly declined another bipartisan online privacy bill proposed by Senators Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn earlier in the year ...
The bill was passed in the context of long-held calls by civil liberties and privacy advocates for heavier regulation the industry, citing concerns about the lack of transparency in the sharing of consumer data and of the use of the data by law enforcement without a need for subpoenas or warrants.
Congress has long discussed ways to protect the personal data regularly submitted by Americans to a wide range of businesses and services. But partisan disputes over the details have doomed ...
California lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill known as the Delete Act that would allow consumers, with a single request, to have every data broker delete their personal information.
As of 2021, only California, Colorado, and Virginia had enacted comprehensive data privacy legislation. [3] Proponents of broad data privacy legislation argue that it provides a more effective and durable solution to the problems many narrower bills attempt to address through focus on specific companies like TikTok. [6]
A House panel advanced a comprehensive data privacy bill in a 53-2 bipartisan vote Wednesday, pushing forward legislation that aims to set a national standard for how tech companies collect and ...