A 2019 bill to require technology companies to allow users to opt out of tracking has been reintroduced by Senator Amy Klobuchar with new bipartisan backing.
Senator Amy Klobuchar who as chair of an antitrust committee recently described the release of AirTags as timely is reintroducing a privacy bill. It s predominantly the same as her 2019 proposal for a Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act, but comes against a much changed political and technological environment.
According to
The Verge, the bill would now force websites to grant greater control to users over their own data. The 2019 bill, introduced in the light of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal, failed through lack of support from the Republican party.
Published May 20, 2021 Updated May 20, 2021, 10:40 am CDT
A bipartisan group of senators have teamed up to reintroduce a data privacy bill that would give users more control over the data collected by websites and companies. Featured Video Hide
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) reintroduced the “Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act” on Thursday. Advertisement Hide
Klobuchar and the other three senators had previously introduced the bill in 2019.
The bill would give users the right to opt-out and keep their information private, to specify privacy preferences, and would require that platforms have their terms of service in “plain language.”
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