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Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, preventing data broker sales to government agencies, moves forward (cyberscoop.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The House Judiciary Committee advanced the bill 30-0.

“This bill is the latest sign of bipartisan support in Congress to tackle the government’s warrantless purchase of American’s personal data, such as location information and internet records, in circumvention of the Fourth Amendment and statutory protections,” Caitriona Fitzgerald, deputy director of EPIC wrote in a statement.

“We’re seeing some incredible leadership on the hill and off the hill,” said Sean Vitka, policy counsel for Demand Progress. “The House has made it clear they want to close the data broker loophole, full stop,” he said.

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[–] varsock 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A step in the right direction but until there are more robust privacy laws in place, this will not go away.

If their gov is restricted on buying from data brokers, are other governments, foreign entities?

The inherit issue is the American's data can be harvested and sold. Setting up legal restrictions toward certain entities will just cause those entities to "legally self identify" as another entity. Or do business with an entity that is allowed access to American's data.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, other laws are needed as well as this. The ADPPA consumer privacy bill is likely to get reintroduced later this session; last year's version had some good features but also a lot of weaknesses, and big tech companies and data brokes are pushing to further weaken it. So it'll be a battle to strengthen and pass it.

But ADPPA doesn't apply to government agencies (and that's not likely to change) so bills like Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale are important complements!

[–] varsock 2 points 1 year ago

thank you for that clarification!

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