I remain deeply skeptical.
Well anything is better than nothing. (Unless it is a surveillance bill)
The tentative deal is expected to broker a compromise between congressional Democrats and Republicans by preempting state data protection laws
We’ll have to wait and see what the real bill looks like, but this would literally be worse than nothing.
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There is absolutely no reason they can’t pass a federal law and then still allow states to have a more restrictive law. It is stupid to add a preemption barring more stringent laws.
But really no laws are strict enough against data harvesting companies.
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It’s not worse than nothing for those of us stuck in backward ass Red states
Not necessarily. Since it’s not always easy to tell which state someone is in, you can end up benefiting from other states’ privacy laws.
Heck, because of the european gdpr, Americans can often opt out of cookies on most websites, even without any US privacy legislation.
