Commentary: Americans might finally get a real privacy law to fight Big Tech intrusions
Last month, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., unveiled a rare government feat: a bipartisan bill that has lawmakers feeling “optimistic” and “fired up.”
It’s the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), and it’s long overdue. The U.S. lags far behind the rest of the world on privacy legislation; 137 of the world’s 194 countries have national privacy laws, according to the United Nations. We’re the G-20 outlier without one. This isn’t the kind of “exceptionalism” Americans should strive for.
