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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by jgalt212 on Saturday May 07, 2016 @07:23PM (#11651834)
Congress is broke and the tech companies know it and optimize against this and will continue to make hay while the sun shines (i.e. before the US produces any effective consumer privacy legislation).
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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by toomuchtodo on Saturday May 07, 2016 @08:18PM (#11652012)
It doesn't cost anything to enact legislation. Congress is a sunk cost.
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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by Spooky23 on Saturday May 07, 2016 @11:49PM (#11652524)
Funny.

Congress cannot afford the lawyers needed to write that kind of legislation. The lobbyists write the laws they advocate for.

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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by toomuchtodo on Sunday May 08, 2016 @12:12AM (#11652579)
Strangely enough, Elizabeth Warren was able to put together comprehensive legislation to work towards ending Intuit's (to name the largest offender) corporate welfare [1] in the tax prep software space. Or is there an anti-private corporation/pro IRS tax prep lobbyist I'm missing?

[1] https://www.warren.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1110

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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by Spooky23 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @09:52AM (#11654059)
I don't follow the sausagemaking process in DC, so I don't precisely know in that instance, but my guess would be a public advocacy group.

In my state legislature, which I follow, it's really common for various groups to write sample legislation. Everything from duck habitat preservation to open source software.

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