Senator Blumenthal Preps US Version of EU Privacy Framework

Sen Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said that he is preparing to introduce a privacy "bill of rights." That came at another hearing on the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica third-party data sharing issue, this one in the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security. Sen Blumenthal said it was based at least in part on the European Union's tough new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) online privacy framework taking effect May 25. He said a first step toward stronger privacy protections was to alert the public to what the threats and challenges of data sharing are, what the national security threats might be, and that may be known to Facebook and other companies, but not to the general public. Sen Blumenthal said he was not happy with what he said was Facebook's continued lack of transparency about its data collection and sharing.