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84% want stronger online privacy laws, but Congress's corruption stalls progress


Americans are, apparently, tired of having every last shred of personal data over-collected, hyper monetized, then improperly secured by a rotating crop of ethics-optional corporations and lazy exe…

Americans are, apparently, tired of having every last shred of personal data over-collected, hyper monetized, then improperly secured by a rotating crop of ethics-optional corporations and lazy executives. You could, on any random day, pluck any of a million mainstream news reports on consumer privacy from the newswire and not find a single one willing to make either of these causes clear to readers. Most of the users surveyed didn’t engage in basic protective measures like two-factor authentication or reliable, encrypted password managers:

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