Commentary: The federal American Data Privacy and Protection Act protects everybody’s data
by David Brody, Los Angeles Times
Jul 29, 2022
3 minutes
When a business signals “whites only,” it does not matter if it is written in ink or pixels, words or code. The discrimination is the same. The harm is the same. And the legal consequences should be the same.
Yet our laws and courts often treat discrimination on the internet differently. Because there is no comprehensive online federal privacy law, online entities can collect, use, buy and sell data about our identities and then discriminate against us. Bipartisan legislation working its way through
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