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Lawmakers unveil sprawling plan to expand online privacy protections
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) announced a major breakthrough in the decades-long fight to address online privacy.
Key federal lawmakers on Sunday unveiled a sweeping proposal that would for the first time give consumers broad rights to control how tech companies like Google, Meta and TikTok use their personal data, a major breakthrough in the decades-long fight to adopt national online privacy protections. At the time, Cantwell said the House measure would impose a multiyear delay on when consumers can bring their own lawsuits, criticizing that provision as one of the bill’s “major enforcement holes.” She also expressed concern that companies could weaken the law by forcing users into arbitration, a process that can require parties to resolve privacy disputes without going to court. A senior aide on the Senate Commerce Committee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the legislation, said Cantwell and McMorris Rodgers made it a priority to hash out those issues, along with Republican concerns about the ability of small businesses to comply with the measure’s provisions.
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