Editorial Board
The Wrong Way to Protect Privacy
A new bill in Congress won’t keep anyone’s data safe. A fiduciary standard would.
A good try.
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Members of Congress are finally getting serious about protecting privacy online. If only they had some better ideas on how to do so.
The latest entrant is a bill sponsored by Senators Josh Hawley and Mark Warner. Among other things, it would require big tech platforms such as Facebook and Google to tell users how much money their personal information generates, and to publicly disclose how much their data is worth in aggregate.