The House Judiciary Committee advanced the bill 30-0.
“This bill is the latest sign of bipartisan support in Congress to tackle the government’s warrantless purchase of American’s personal data, such as location information and internet records, in circumvention of the Fourth Amendment and statutory protections,” Caitriona Fitzgerald, deputy director of EPIC wrote in a statement.
“We’re seeing some incredible leadership on the hill and off the hill,” said Sean Vitka, policy counsel for Demand Progress. “The House has made it clear they want to close the data broker loophole, full stop,” he said.
A step in the right direction but until there are more robust privacy laws in place, this will not go away.
If their gov is restricted on buying from data brokers, are other governments, foreign entities?
The inherit issue is the American’s data can be harvested and sold. Setting up legal restrictions toward certain entities will just cause those entities to “legally self identify” as another entity. Or do business with an entity that is allowed access to American’s data.
Agreed, other laws are needed as well as this. The ADPPA consumer privacy bill is likely to get reintroduced later this session; last year’s version had some good features but also a lot of weaknesses, and big tech companies and data brokes are pushing to further weaken it. So it’ll be a battle to strengthen and pass it.
But ADPPA doesn’t apply to government agencies (and that’s not likely to change) so bills like Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale are important complements!
thank you for that clarification!
came to say something like this but you said it better.
What about banks and their Anaconda software that has every bit of everything about you? Where are the articles and regulations on that?
I’m not concerned about the government find out about rich conservatives selling out the country.
I’m worried about the unregulated rich assholes who keep trying to fuck and steal everything with foreign help.
Agreed, other laws are needed as well as this – https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/1197545 goes into more detail.
“other team bad”, weird to specify rich conservatives and totally ignore the rich liberal people doing the same. What do they both have in common, besides the desire to control and amass power and wealth?
