{"id":860,"date":"2019-09-23T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.pirg-test.com\/georgia\/articles\/data-privacy-cant-be-assured-without-states-and-consumers\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T06:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:52:43","slug":"data-privacy-cant-be-assured-without-states-and-consumers","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/dev.pirg-test.com\/georgia\/articles\/data-privacy-cant-be-assured-without-states-and-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Privacy Can\u2019t Be Assured Without States and Consumers"},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":false,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":""},"campaign_tax":[183],"display_option":[],"issue_tax":[],"person_tax":[],"region_tax":[],"state":[5,7,8,9,12,13,16,18,23,24,25,28,29,2,32,33,34,36,38,40,41,42,46,50,52],"topic_tax":[154],"class_list":["post-860","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"details":{"helper_taxonomies":{"topics":[154,162],"collection":false,"press_type":false,"person_type":false,"resource_type":false,"event_type":false,"campaigns":183,"department":false,"level":false,"states":[2,5,7,8,9,12,13,16,18,23,24,25,28,29,32,33,34,36,38,40,41,42,46,50,52],"act_option":false,"display_option":false,"primary":{"topic":154}},"featured_image":"","caption_override":"","excerpt":"Recently, the CEOs who make up the Business Roundtable renewed their demand that Congress pass a federal privacy \u201cstandard\u201d that preempts stronger state laws. That's the wrong way to go because Congress only does a good job protecting consumers either after a disaster (e.g., Wall Street's collapse of the economy) or after states lead the way. We shouldn't have to wait for a disaster. Learn more.","updated_on":null,"sidebar_action":null,"hide_hero_image":false,"sidebar_action_query_string":""},"helper_people_group":{"title":"Authors","entities":[{"type":"dynamic","dynamic_person":{"site":4,"people":"192"},"information":{"name":"","image":null,"role":"","biography":"","contact":{"twitter":"","facebook":"","email":"","phone":""}}}]},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

Recently, the CEOs who make up the Business Roundtable\u00a0renewed their demand<\/a>\u00a0that Congress pass a federal privacy \u201cstandard\u201d that preempts stronger state laws. Los Angeles Times columnist David Lazarus\u00a0helpfully provides context<\/a>: \u201cTranslation:\u00a0We want privacy rules, but not California\u2019s, and not anything that we can\u2019t water down at the national level through congressional lobbying.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

An earlier comprehensive BRT \u201cFramework<\/a>\u201d made clear that the new law must also deny consumers the right to defend themselves against privacy harms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Internet Association<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 which includes Amazon, Facebook, and Google among its members \u2014 made similar demands this month. Those digital platforms and many others also seek preemption of robust state privacy protections. They\u2019re joined by the telecom and cable internet service providers (ISPs) that serve as the on-ramps to the online world, by the digital advertising firms that track and collect your life story, without your knowledge, consent or control and by myriad other virtually unregulated \u201cdata brokers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be clear: the goal of these businesses is not to protect your privacy, it is to continue to invade it. Their proposal would normalize the existing digital surveillance system that serves them well.\u00a0\u00a0Its \u201cgrand bargain\u201d is to notify you and allegedly give you power to control your digital life.<\/p>\n

Their \u201cnotice and choice\u201d proposal is a limited, industry-friendly, often confusing system that\u2019s designed to fail. The firms offer a potpourri of minimal privacy protections enforceable primarily by the Federal Trade Commission.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, our public interest privacy coalition has a\u00a0detailed framework for comprehensive digital rights and privacy reform<\/a>. True digital privacy protection would minimize data collection. It also would require privacy by design, civil rights protections, algorithmic oversight, prohibitions on certain data collection and uses, real redress rights and a new, tough Data Protection Agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Further, Congress should not consider \u201cprivacy\u201d legislation to benefit a handful of large tech companies while the\u00a0House Judiciary Committee is investigating<\/a>\u00a0if these companies are violating antitrust laws with the help of a surveillance business model that their preferred federal privacy law would normalize. Other Congressional committees, the federal government and\u00a050 states<\/a>\u00a0are looking into allegedly anticompetitive practices by one or more of the firms atop the digital ecosystem.<\/p>\n

For many years, commercial interests argued, \u201cwe neither need nor want a federal privacy law.\u201d Now, they say, \u201cwe desperately need a federal privacy law but not one like the new\u00a0European GDPR<\/a>.\u201d The sudden reversal was no epiphany, religious or otherwise. Rather, it\u2019s a calculated effort, backed by a flood of lobbying and campaign cash, to use the purported existential \u201cthreat\u201d of a \u201cpatchwork\u201d of state \u201cmini-GDPRs\u201d to shut down all state innovation on data privacy protections. California\u2019s state law is the preferred bogeyman for these businesses, but they\u2019re worried about other states as well.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, passing that new federal law isn\u2019t Job One for the big tech companies: pre-empting robust state legislation and denying consumers the right to defend themselves from privacy harms comes first.<\/p>\n

In my 30 years in Washington, I have learned that Congress only does a good job protecting consumers in two circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, Congress does a good job after a disaster, generally one caused by powerful special interest overreach \u2014 for example, the 2007-2008 financial collapse followed by Wall Street reform. Second, Congress does a good job when states show Congress the way forward with true innovation and leadership.<\/p>\n

A Congressional hubris is the mistaken belief that when it acts, its actions completely solve problems and therefore, it is OK to preempt state laws for special interests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To truly ensure consumer protection, Congress needs to allow states to pass additional reforms to solve missed problems or respond to unforeseen or local problems. Just as important, our state and federal laws need to give consumers rights to defend themselves.<\/p>\n

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