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The first thing to know about US Laws/Bills is that whatever they name it, it typically achieves the opposite

classified 4y ago
I assume "Data Privacy" means privacy for the company that collected the data and "Protection" means protection from the people they collected it from.
- water-your-self 4y ago
  The U.S. government makes often use of the data that many companies keep about us. Android geofencing is my clasic example for non tech.
paparush 4y ago
Sadly true.
mdip 4y ago
Completely, especially if it has the words "Digital", "Online" or "Data". I haven't read the bill or read about the bill but I'd wager a coffee there's also some form of entertainment/copyright industry hostility in there. I'm really trying not to be cynical here, but I started so I might as well finish. Step #2 is if it does happen to pass, the parts of the bill that are actually consumer protections will be unenforceable, be ruled unconstitutional or have unintended negative consequences. The bad parts of the law will have no issues in the courts or with enforcement. They, too, will have unintended added negative consequences.
- roamerz 4y ago
  You forgot the words “Inflation“, “Equality“, “Infrastructure”, “Dream”, “People”, “Save”, “Health”, Budget” or “Climate”.
  - Consultant32452 4y ago
    Patriot
    - dhritzkiv 4y ago
      "Families", or "Children"
rolph 4y ago
this is because the title of a bill has very little to do with the function of the bill turned law. obfusication of a bills content and intention by using a dissociative title must stop
hot_gril 4y ago
Or something unrelated. The "infrastructure" bill got renamed to "inflation-reduction" bill despite its contents not changing much. If the pandemic were still a massive concern, I'll bet it'd be called the "covid19 relief" bill... oh right, there was one of those, and it included foreign military aid.

I assume "Data Privacy" means privacy for the company that collected the data and "Protection" means protection from the people they collected it from.

water-your-self 4y ago
The U.S. government makes often use of the data that many companies keep about us. Android geofencing is my clasic example for non tech.

paparush 4y ago

Sadly true.

mdip 4y ago

Completely, especially if it has the words "Digital", "Online" or "Data". I haven't read the bill or read about the bill but I'd wager a coffee there's also some form of entertainment/copyright industry hostility in there. I'm really trying not to be cynical here, but I started so I might as well finish. Step #2 is if it does happen to pass, the parts of the bill that are actually consumer protections will be unenforceable, be ruled unconstitutional or have unintended negative consequences. The bad parts of the law will have no issues in the courts or with enforcement. They, too, will have unintended added negative consequences.

roamerz 4y ago
You forgot the words “Inflation“, “Equality“, “Infrastructure”, “Dream”, “People”, “Save”, “Health”, Budget” or “Climate”.
- Consultant32452 4y ago
  Patriot
  - dhritzkiv 4y ago
    "Families", or "Children"

rolph 4y ago

this is because the title of a bill has very little to do with the function of the bill turned law. obfusication of a bills content and intention by using a dissociative title must stop

hot_gril 4y ago

Or something unrelated. The "infrastructure" bill got renamed to "inflation-reduction" bill despite its contents not changing much. If the pandemic were still a massive concern, I'll bet it'd be called the "covid19 relief" bill... oh right, there was one of those, and it included foreign military aid.