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The Trump Administration is Talking To Facebook and Google About Potential Rules For Online Privacy (washingtonpost.com)
The Trump administration is crafting a proposal to protect Web users' privacy, aiming to blunt global criticism that the absence of strict federal rules in the United States has enabled data mishaps at Facebook and others in Silicon Valley. From a report: Over the past month, the Commerce Department has been huddling with representatives of tech giants such as Facebook and Google, Internet providers including AT&T and Comcast, and consumer advocates [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source], according to four people familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak on the record. The government's goal is to release an initial set of ideas this fall that outlines Web users' rights, including general principles for how companies should collect and handle consumers' private information, the people said. The forthcoming blueprint could then become the basis for Congress to write the country's first wide-ranging online-privacy law, an idea the White House recently has said it could endorse. "Through the White House National Economic Council, the Trump Administration aims to craft a consumer privacy protection policy that is the appropriate balance between privacy and prosperity," Lindsay Walters, the president's deputy press secretary, said in a statement. "We look forward to working with Congress on a legislative solution consistent with our overarching policy."
As much as I deeply enjoy mocking Europe, they have much better consumer privacy protection than the US. It would be great to catch up a little. Plus: Trump making the US more like the EU? The heads exploding would be like the end of Kingsmen.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Don't forget that when people get privacy in the USA, megacorps get it too. You will be less able than ever to keep them in check.
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
The Trump Administration is Talking To Foxes and Wolves About Potential Rules For Hen-house Safety.
No conflicts of interest here. No sir! None whatsoever.
Anyone storing private information is liable 100% for its unauthorized release.
They would be completely on the hook for compensating any losses and remediating any financial fallout.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
That would be great, but will never happen.
Where I work, the product team uses Slack. Our build system uses HipChat since it has good integration with it. The company standard is Microsoft Teams, but it's just too slow unless you have a brand new desktop since we also have to run both Visual Studio and IntelliJ so most devs just use Skype. Support and sales use Salesforce chat which we can't deploy to everyone because of the high cost.
Facebook and Google are the worst offenders. We should be asking the EFF, and taking some cues from GPDR. Asking Facebook to write privacy legislation is like asking Wells Fargo to write banking laws.
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This needs higher visibility, but I'm all out of mod points.
This is about companies wanting to *prevent* states from passing their own privacy laws, because of things like states passing laws against using facial recognition. Congress will pass a law to keep states from doing that, and that law will give big data companies legal cover both for (1) continuing to use their massive existing amounts of data, which is a large corporate asset, in AI work and (2) collecting additional data.
Exactly. And I'd also add, this:
Through the White House National Economic Council, the Trump Administration aims to craft a consumer privacy protection policy that is the appropriate balance between privacy and prosperity.
It's setting up the idea, soon to be enshrined in law, that more privacy always mean less prosperity.
Nope, no sig
I suspect they are spinning it this way to manipulate you, but that in reality they are using it to undermine privacy protections. My suspicion is that this isn't about privacy. Think about it. This is about companies wanting to *prevent* states from passing their own privacy laws, because of things like states passing laws against using facial recognition. Congress will pass a law to keep states from doing that, and that law will give big data companies legal cover both for (1) continuing to use their massive existing amounts of data, which is a large corporate asset, in AI work and (2) collecting additional data.
There will be some minimal federal protections in the law, probably aimed at nominally anonymizing the data or not using it to make spam phone calls or something else people will like that won't affect the companies that want to use it. But those are there mostly to give cover to politicians so they can spin it as protecting privacy.
Just a guess that would be in keeping with how government works.
I can to say this very thing. Quoting to boost ACs visibility.
I'm sure they will call it something like the "PROTECTING INTERNET PRIVACY ACT". That will pretty much tell us everything we need to know.
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