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    pknecronDell Cameron
    10/17/19 8:10am

    Too bad the Senate is long bought and paid for. This will die a quick death. I doubt Moscow Mitch will even let it see a vote.

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      Stupid | Cleverpknecron
      10/17/19 9:07am

      Naw, it will surely go through - minus the fines, prison terms, and the whole privacy part. It will probably focus on concrete improvements to the ToA click-through: “All companies capturing private data must add a section to their Terms of Agreement that data ownership resides with the consumer. Unless a viable business case can prove guaranteed and material positive taxable EBITDA will result from a sale of said data.”

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    SarDeliacDell Cameron
    10/17/19 11:56am

    Sites like Facebook—free to use because they mine their users’ personal information—would be forced to offer a “privacy-friendly” versions of their product.

    I’m sure a Facebook feed that looks like a Lynx page from 1987 will be very popular with its customer-product.

    And this is a cute piece of legislation. How much of facebook’s revenue will be required to kill it? I’ll put the over/under at 12 hours (roughly $94m) because buying legislators is still very affordable, relatively speaking.

    There’s a zero percent chance anything remotely resembling this thing will ever become law.

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      DrunkyMcStumblesSarDeliac
      10/17/19 3:04pm

      If we just dismiss it and don’t fight for it, ya. But, maybe if we actually get the word out about this and show them we want this, it has a chance.

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      SarDeliacDrunkyMcStumbles
      10/17/19 3:24pm

      If you are on, or have ever been on, social media of any kind, at any point, ever, you do not have privacy to protect any more.

      If you have ever had a credit card, password, or username compromised, you do not have privacy to protect any more.

      If you have not been using a VPN constantly from the instant you initially logged on to the Internet, you do not have privacy to protect any more.

      If you own a smartphone, you do not have privacy to protect any more.

      This bill should be titled “The Locking The Barn Door Now That The Cow’s Gone Act of 2020.”

      It has zero chance.

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    RagnorTheOfficeBarbarianDell Cameron
    10/17/19 11:11am

    A corporation shouldn’t be treated as a “person” if they are not able to be held to the same standards and accountability as a “real” person.

    Period.

    Citizens United was a fucking joke. Bought and paid for by the people who fund the people who wine and dine SCOTUS members with “retreats” and “engagements”.

    It’s assholes all the fucking way down.

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      LunicornRagnorTheOfficeBarbarian
      10/17/19 11:31am

      Citizens United is the single worst thing that has ever happened to the US

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      RagnorTheOfficeBarbarianLunicorn
      10/17/19 11:59am

      I mean, things were bad before...and then it got worse.

      Even John Roberts says he has regrets about that one.

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    ArcaneDell Cameron
    10/17/19 9:23am

    If you ask the American people, there’s only one thing that will stop elected representatives in Congress and other branches of government from violating their constituents’ best interests: the taste of prison chow.

    /and before the comments coming in saying I’m a corporate bootlicker, my comment and the point of this article are not mutually exclusive. 

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      PVArcane
      10/17/19 9:38am

      There’s always treason.  The gallows can always be put back up.   And it seems to be the season for it.  

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      RodPaulPV
      10/17/19 1:10pm

      I’m partial to heads on pikes, myself.

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    Stupid | CleverDell Cameron
    10/17/19 9:00am

    Warm ups already in progress at Big Digital Lobby Inc.

    Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag.Click here to download the video itself.
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    BrianorcaDell Cameron
    10/17/19 12:34pm

    And to prevent privacy from becoming a luxury, low-income consumers who meet the same eligibility requirements for the U.S. government’s Lifeline program cannot be charged under Wyden’s bill.

    And how much more personal information will be have to share to prove that? What’s the chance it gets leaked or hacked at some point?

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    jcn-txctDell Cameron
    10/17/19 3:10pm

    I’m a little cynical about this become law. The only way it does if something like McConnell and others get their personal information used and manipulated and they become victims of the social medias.

    Then again, most of them are either too old to know anything about it or use it like everyone’s grandmother uses it.

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    boobsandbaconDell Cameron
    10/17/19 1:24pm

    Its a shame that we all seem to be for this bill and yet we all know it won’t be passed. Gotta love democracy 

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    PaulWDell Cameron
    10/17/19 1:44pm

    Imagine a scenario in which Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc., all charge a $5-$10/month fee for the use of their services rather than leveraging your data. If the aggregate of these services was in the $50 dollar range per month, how many Americans would choose that path?

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    Obfuscatio: philosopher at largeDell Cameron
    10/17/19 9:44am

    “Under the bill, executives who *knowingly* lie to the FTC about privacy violations could face up to 20 years behind bars...”

    FOUND THE LOOPHOLE!!

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