The House Energy and Commerce Committee is styling the new push for federal online privacy law as a means to hold Big Tech accountable and reveal how Americans’ information is used by data brokers.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the committee’s chairwoman, said Wednesday that lawmakers’ efforts to write new federal privacy and data security law must ensure Americans are not viewed as simply dollar signs for data brokers and Big Tech companies.
“This isn’t acceptable,” Ms. McMorris Rodgers, Washington Republican, said at a committee hearing. “Data brokers and Big Tech’s day of operating in the dark should be over. People should trust their data is being protected.” “Members of both parties talk a lot about holding Big Tech accountable,” Mr. Pallone said. “And I firmly believe that the way to do that is by adopting a strong national privacy standard that limits the excesses of Big Tech and makes the digital world safer.”
Their bill intended to minimize data collection, empower people to turn off targeted ads and create a new privacy bureau within the Federal Trade Commission, among other things.
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