> We must also protect small businesses and innovation. We know that in Europe, investments in startups are down more than 40% since their data protection and p

> We must also protect small businesses and innovation. We know that in Europe, investments in startups are down more than 40% since their data protection and privacy law—the General Data Protection Regulation—went into effect. We must guard against a similar situation here. We want small businesses hiring coders and engineers, not lawyers. I was about to say something along the lines of, since it was introduced by Republicans you know that this will get ignored. However, after reviewing what they are actually proposing, I hypothesize that this isn't actually designed to increase privacy. I believe this is more about them making it easier to collect data and giving businesses more means to do so at your expense. If they wanted to increase privacy they'd mirror at least somewhat the CCPA, which already addresses many of these issues. The CCPA is not perfect and there are far too many exceptions IMO, but at least it was effective and California residents can easily request that their accounts and information be deleted. If anything they should be looking at the CCPA and GDPR as a starting point for how to address privacy, not ignore and gaslight you into thinking they are somehow bad. I hope that a tech blog and EFF do a write up on this and create an entire campaign against what the Republicans are proposing here so that people don't get duped by this con.