A group of tech consumer groups and racial justice organizations released an aggressive new proposal on Thursday, calling on the federal government to create an entirely new federal agency tasked with data privacy protection. “Our privacy laws are decades out of date,” the letter from the group says. “We urgently need a new approach to privacy protection.” The 16 organizations behind the push—which include the Center for Digital Democracy, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Color of Change, and the Media Alliance—also called for federal legislation that would set a “baseline” for what consumers can expect for how tech companies must handle their data. But the focus of the new push is to create a new agency and remove that responsibility from the Federal Trade Commission.
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Nihal Krishan, Mother Jones
Fri, 01/18/2019 - 2:51pm
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