RepScoutGuy
October 26, 2024, 9:52am
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Various policies have been suggested around legislation to protect personal data online. I thought we should centralize the discussion in a collection.
High Level: Polices that discuss the problems and solutions overall.
Low Level: Polices that discuss problems and solutions with specific terms and conditions, almost like law.
What this means?
The current ease of access to personal address information through online databases poses significant risks to American citizens. This exposure has led to numerous incidents including stalking, harassment, and more severe crimes like assault and abduction. Moreover, it fuels unwanted solicitations that disrupt daily life. Often people that disagree with one another on social media tend to dox the other person for revenge. This happens on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram; basically e…
Citizens of the United States should be able to exercise control over their own data: their conversations they have on social media sites and through online communications, the data collected by software on their phones and vehicles, their address, phone number, among other things. A reasonable person should expect to have their data remain private unless and until they choose to disclose it to the parties they choose.
Currently, your internet service provider, cell phone provider, and massive …
Proposal: Protecting Our Personal Data from Unchecked Corporate Practices
Introduction: In today’s digital age, personal data has become a valuable commodity. Companies that handle our information, especially major credit reporting agencies like Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax, wield significant power over our financial identities. Yet, many individuals are unaware of how these agencies operate and the potential dangers posed by their practices.
The Issue: When you request a copy of your cre…
I am a software engineer who is very concerned about online privacy, and I wanted to join the discussion with another policy that differs a bit from the rest because of my background.
This policy tries to strike the balance between the openness and free-ness of the internet while protecting personal information from being abused while still providing a way for services like
Wikipedia
OpenSecrets
Stripe
Amazon
to still exist, while preventing things like
Data brokers
Personal anecdote: Des…
Bill Title: The Digital Privacy and Anti-Surveillance Act
Section 1: Findings
Congress finds that the increasing use of technology to track, monitor, and collect information about individuals poses a significant threat to privacy, civil liberties, and the freedom of expression and association.
Congress is particularly concerned about the use of such technologies for the purpose of compiling lists or dossiers on individuals for doxing, harassment, or other malicious purposes.
Section 2:…
The USA has no clear laws regarding it’s citizens privacy online. From your ISP to google, to practically all social media. They all steal your info and sell it. Oftentimes people have no idea this is even happening. Europe has better laws for individual privacy like the GDPR, and that just seems wrong for “the land of the free” to have less freedom than the EU
Your information should be private, and at the very least corporations should have to pay YOU for access to all your data.
It’s alrea…
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