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The question is "Does the United States have a national privacy law that sets common standards for what companies can do with all data their products and servic
by svachalek 3y ago
The question is "Does the United States have a national privacy law that sets common standards for what companies can do with all data their products and services collect?" The key word, but tricky, is the word "all". I think this makes the "no" answer correct but is not a great form of the question. If the answers were "all, some, none, not sure" it would have been more illuminating.
- username135 3y agoThis is why I hated standardized tests. There's no room for outliers or edge cases that make the answer to a question not really 100%.
- hedora 3y agoThe word "all" doesn't appear in the version of the question in the story I see. It just says this: "The U.S. does not have a national privacy law addressing how companies can use the data they collect" Even still, "all" wouldn't falsify the statement. There are some laws enumerating illegal things you could use data for. Anything not prohibited by law is legal. That's how the US legal system works. "Common standards" also doesn't exist in the version of the question in the article. However, setting common standards would prevent states from pass stronger restrictions, with the effect of actually weakening privacy law. [edit: Flipping some negations around, I think your version of the question is logically equivalent to "In the US, state and local governments do not have the authority to pass any laws addressing how companies can use any of the data they collect."]
- hgsgm 3y agoClick through to Pew and then Topline. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023/08/PI_2023.08.17_Digital-Knowledge_TOPLINE.pdf https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/wp-content/uploads/site...