What others are saying about the APRA https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/4/what-others-are-saying#:~:text=This comprehensive draft legislation sets,right of action for individuals
Compares to EU GDPR rights https://tuta.com/blog/apra-is-americas-gdpr
EFF favorable on bill but say it should go further https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/americans-deserve-more-current-american-privacy-rights-act
Some opposition to bill but largely bipartisan https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/insights/blogs/wilmerhale-privacy-and-cybersecurity-law/20240418-new-federal-privacy-bill-draft-hits-congress
Full pdf text of bill https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/E7D2864C-64C3-49D3-BC1E-6AB41DE863F5
I truly despise how I can’t just assume that something does what it says it does on the title. Gotta read a separate article analyzing it or read it in full myself.
Yeah, that’s America for you. Even after reading it I’m still a little confused and distrustful. Everything that it’s saying seems good and rational, so why on earth are any Republicans backing it? Have they been tricked into passing an actual good law that is broadly popular? Have they managed to sneak in some insane line promising Meta a right to my first-born’s soul?
I heard about it on a somewhat right-leaning youtube channel, China Uncensored - the host was surprised it was bipartisan as well. Honestly that channel has been the only reporting I’ve seen on it despite how important it is, and I wonder why Pres. Biden and Democrats in general aren’t more vocal about the bill considering how widely popular it would be.
Around 3:00 in this video if you want to see: https://youtu.be/RqaqGXI1KVY
Democrats CAN’T publicize their good for society bills until AFTER they pass. If they do the MAGAs will just turn it into a partisan issue and it’ll never make it through. Look at the border bill!
As long as they keep it quiet, MAGAs stay quiet and uninformed, this lets the rest of the house function reasonably and bipartisan bills are possible.
Eh, there’s been a bunch of these attempts that have failed, so I’m not gonna criticize Biden too harshly for not counting his chickens before they’ve hatched. You’re certainly right about the Dems optics issues though, this is the third in a string of huge wins regarding regulation of the tech sector, and it feels like I’ve only seen chatter about it on Lemmy.
Oh man I was hoping I could just wrangle up some orphans and collect the food bounty.
It’s so close to the TikTok ban that they probably feel like both bills have the same aims.
I mean, technically both bills do, in that they’re both protecting American’s data. One does it by preventing adversarial foreign interests, the other does it by curtailing adversarial domestic interests.
I saw the name and thought, great, let’s see how theyre going to frame killing any and all privacy is a good thing. For me. For business. For the children.
It’s all 1984 doublespeak. Our department of defense is a department of war, we haven’t had to defend in lifetimes. Department of justice? As much as you can afford, anyways. Department of Housing and Urban Development? What have they been asleep for 40 years? that’s the 3rd most prestigious spot in the cabinet too…for …WHY? Department of transportation; boomers haven’t reinvested in infrastructure in any way. It’s antithetical to their “greed is good” mantra they repeat over and over as they steal their children’s and grandkids futures.
Idk about you guys, but I intend to leave the world a better place than I found it, and that doesn’t mean I’ll be super busy when I’m 70-80 (cmon, I’m a millennial, I have zero faith in the future…as we’re about to head into my 4th “once-in-a-lifetime” economic downturn…) no, that means every single day I’m working towards that, on the off chance that today is my last day.
We ain’t done tho, then there’s the blurry lines, the lesser known obfuscations, like that the Chamber of Commerce is a private organization, whose intent, as observed by their actions, is to fuck over labor. Or the Federal Reserve not being a part of the government, but the head of it is appointed…all kinds of fuckery to make knowing the truth, or deserved transparency, impossible. Or the Better Business Bureau. Or the SEC. Or the fucking police. Clarence Thomas. It’s just corruption so corrupt I worry amputation is the only cure, but with that goes the baby and not a person alive knows how the boog would play out, or who’d have power afterwards.
I read somewhere that gamers don’t want to advertised to in-game by the producers being players and just want, instead, to be Informed about things and if possible included in the conversation.
Like …that is the most obvious answer to group dynamics to anyone who’s ever lived and thought about how to treat people for more than 2 seconds…but we see it nowhere.
Because once any modicum of success is achieved our live and let die capitalism necessitates that when people look down they don’t see people anymore, just pockets and products.
It’ll be interesting to see what privacy rights we Americans actually have, once it’s goes into law.
It’s a good article, breaks down a lot of the major points. But I still worry about the ‘devil is in the details’, and how it effects regular people day-to-day.
This cat has a link to the Creative Commons license at the bottom of all of his comments.
How very Facebook will sell your data if you do not copy and paste this message of them.
Their posts show up in Google with ads next to them. That is commercial use, which is prohibited by that license. I wonder if they intend to sue Google.
It still has to go through the Senate and be signed, there will probably be significant changes before it has a chance to become law.
It still has to go through the Senate and be signed, there will probably be significant changes before it has a chance to become law.
For better, or for worse, will be the thing to keep an eye out for.
I was able to find this clip on YouTube of the bills’ sponsors talking about it on CNBC from before it passed the House. Otherwise practically no broadcast about this.
