U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang suggests that online data should be considered as a property right
for how personal data should be collected and used by companies for advertising and other purposes. The website outlines a variety of rights including letting consumers know what data is collected about them, how it will be used, and when the data “changes hands.
Yang isn’t the first Democratic candidate to suggest comprehensive changes to U.S. data privacy laws. Last year and again this year, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, introduced the Social Media Privacy and Consumer Rights Act, which would provide added transparency and controls for how data is collected and used by companies and how consumers would be informed of any data breaches. And in March, U.S. Sen.
So far, no federal legislation has gained traction. However, at the state level, the California Consumer Privacy Act—which will implement many of the same types of requirements as Yang proposes—is set to go into effect in January 2020. Industry trade groups have said they want data privacy legislation passed at the federal level to avoid forcing companies to have to comply with data laws at the state level.
Tech companies including Google and Facebook have also publicly expressed a preference for federal legislation. However, leaked audio recordings of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg–acquired and published today by“You have someone like Elizabeth Warren who thinks that the right answer is to break up the companies,” Zuckerberg said in a meeting with Facebook employees in July, according to. “...
“We have to fix a corrupt system that lets giant companies like Facebook engage in illegal anticompetitive practices, stomp on consumer privacy rights, and repeatedly fumble their responsibility to protect our democracy,” she wrote in a separate
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