HB 29-26: The 2021 Digital Privacy Act (FINAL VOTE)

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SENATE BILL

To protect privacy on the internet

Be it enacted in Both Houses of Congress Assembled,

The 2021 Digital Privacy Act

Section 1.) Because I wanted you to know


A.) All companies, organizations or entities providing digital advertising services in Atlasia shall be obliged to provide consumers with the all of their relevant data and information that are held on said person.

B.) Individuals shall also request to know if their data has been provided, or sold to another entity.

C.) The Federal Trade Commission, in conjunction with the Attorney General, shall have the power to enforce this act and ensure its compliance.

Section 2- Don't Track Me

A.) All users and consumers shall have the right to sign up to a 'do not track' federal guarantee. Upon a consumer signing up for this guarantee no company, advertiser or entity shall be able to advertise any product towards them based on their previous internet use, browsing history, demographics or other similar information.  

B.) Companies that wish to condition products and services on the sale or sharing of consumer data must offer another, similar privacy-friendly version of their product.

C.) Individuals shall hereby be allowed to request that companies holding information on them shall not sell or provide this data to a third party, with the exception of providing information to law enforcement bodies.  

Section 3- Sue, Grabbit and Runne

A. Both the Federal Government and the regions of Altasia are hereby allowed to designate one “protection and advocacy” organization that can file civil suits against companies that violate privacy regulations.

People's Regional Senate
Passed 6-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,

Sponsor:
Status: Seeking Sponsor

[Harvey Updyke Jr🌹]

I'll sponsor.

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24 hours to object to Harveys sponsorship

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Harvey is recognized as sponsor.

Sponsor, please advocate.

[Harvey Updyke Jr🌹]

Not much to say -- your data should belong to you, and you should have a right to make companies cease using it or profit off of your information. You should have a privacy from being tracked via online fingerprint. Vote yes if you respect an individual's right to privacy.

[Dr. MB]

I fully support this bill. It's crucial to ensure privacy both online and offline and this is one of the most important issues to me.

[Joseph Cao]

It would naturally be crucial, and vital to the interests of ordinary citizens, for both the federal and regional governments to exercise great discretion in appointing the protection and advocacy organizations of Section 3. Do we have any good ways of ensuring that?

[Dr. MB]

It would naturally be crucial, and vital to the interests of ordinary citizens, for both the federal and regional governments to exercise great discretion in appointing the protection and advocacy organizations of Section 3. Do we have any good ways of ensuring that?

Would making the appointment be verified by a unanimous vote of something (court, legislature, board) be a good idea?

[Joseph Cao]

It would naturally be crucial, and vital to the interests of ordinary citizens, for both the federal and regional governments to exercise great discretion in appointing the protection and advocacy organizations of Section 3. Do we have any good ways of ensuring that?

Would making the appointment be verified by a unanimous vote of something (court, legislature, board) be a good idea?

Definitely would be, perhaps along with the requirement that the organization is verifiably nonpartisan (although I have no idea how enforceable or feasible that would be).

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How are we doing here?

[Joseph Cao]

I'll see if I can get an amendment up within the next couple of days regarding some of my earlier concerns.

[Joseph Cao]

Very overdue amendment:

A BILL

To protect privacy on the internet

Be it enacted in Both Houses of Congress Assembled,

The 2021 Digital Privacy Act

Section 1.) Because I wanted you to know


A.) All companies, organizations or entities providing digital advertising services in Atlasia shall be obliged to provide consumers with the all of their relevant data and information that are held on said person.

B.) Individuals shall also request to know if their data has been provided, or sold to another entity.

C.) The Federal Trade Commission, in conjunction with the Attorney General, shall have the power to enforce this act and ensure its compliance.

Section 2- Don't Track Me

A.) All users and consumers shall have the right to sign up to a 'do not track' federal guarantee. Upon a consumer signing up for this guarantee no company, advertiser or entity shall be able to advertise any product towards them based on their previous internet use, browsing history, demographics or other similar information. 

B.) Companies that wish to condition products and services on the sale or sharing of consumer data must offer another, similar privacy-friendly version of their product.

C.) Individuals shall hereby be allowed to request that companies holding information on them shall not sell or provide this data to a third party, with the exception of providing information to law enforcement bodies. 

Section 3- Sue, Grabbit and Runne

A. Both the Federal Government and the regions of Atlasia are hereby allowed to designate one “protection and advocacy” organization that can file civil suits against companies that violate privacy regulations.

B. This designation process may require the agreement of the (federal or regional) government, by unanimous vote of a relevant body, that the organization is nonpartisan or otherwise capable of impartial work.

People's Regional Senate
Passed 6-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,

Lingering concerns about whether or not this is either too weak or too strong an amendment (I would be open to listening to either calls to water it down to a recommendation or beef it up to a federally mandated requirement) but just thought I'd see what the rest of the House thinks.

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24 hours to object

[Harvey Updyke Jr🌹]

No objection.

[Joseph Cao]

Amendment adopted, I take it?

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Amendment adopted, yes

[Harvey Updyke Jr🌹]

Motion for a final vote.

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No objections, so I'm going to go ahead and open a final vote.

72 hours.

[Joseph Cao]

Aye.

[lfromnj]

Can the similar privacy friendly versions cost more money?

[Harvey Updyke Jr🌹]

AYE

[Dr. MB]

Aye

[Continential]

Aye

[Talleyrand]

AYE

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Bill has the votes to pass. 24 hours to change votes or vote.