DelBene Touts Privacy Opt-In Bill on Rosenworcel Podcast
Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., touted her Information Transparency and Personal Data Control Act during an episode of FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel’s podcast released Thursday. HR-2013, which DelBene filed in 2018 (see 1809200030), would require companies to get opt-in consent to…
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collect and share user data. The measure would also allow state attorneys general to obtain injunctive relief for violations (see 1912060035). “We should be in control of our personal information,” DelBene said during the podcast. “We should know when we are signing up for a service or participating using a product or an app on your phone, that you understand what’s going to happen to any data, what data is being collected.” Companies’ privacy policies should be “described in what we call plain English, right, something that’s not just legalese where a lot of people click 'accept' right now,” she said. “We also need enforcement, because there’s really not clarity of who’s going to enforce data privacy legislation. We talk about the [FTC] as being the place that would provide that enforcement, as well as states’ attorneys general.”