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Senators introduce bill creating a 'privacy bill of rights'
At the same time Facebook's CEO is facing questions from the Senate Judiciary & Commerce committees, two senators introduced legislation focused on protecting people from incidents like the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The Customer Online Notification for Stopping Edge-provider Network Transgressions (CONSENT) Act proposed by Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) requires "edge providers" (read: Facebook and Google) to obtain opt-in consent to "use, share, or sell users' personal information," tell users about data collection and how the info is used, and protect it with "reasonable" measures. The full act is readable here (PDF)
