{"id":178532,"date":"2018-11-02T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/02\/a-good-start-11\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T23:21:00","slug":"a-good-start-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/02\/a-good-start-11\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not talking about the joke asking what one calls, &#8220;500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the ocean,&#8221; but rather the proposal by <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/8xjwjz\/sen-ron-wyden-introduces-bill-that-would-send-ceos-to-jail-for-violating-consumer-privacy\">proposal by Senator Ron Wyden to throw tech execs in jail for violating our privacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fines are just a cost of doing business, but if Zuckerberg or Page, or Brin or Pichai spend 24 (or 240) months behind bars, there will be a deterrent effect:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has introduced a comprehensive new privacy  bill he claims will finally address the lack of meaningful privacy  protections for American consumers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Wyden says his <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.documentcloud.org\/documents\/5026543\/Wyden-Privacy-Bill.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consumer Data Protection Act<\/a> is a direct response to the ocean of privacy scandals that have plagued the internet for the better part of the last decade.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Senator\u2019s proposal would dramatically beef up Federal Trade  Commission authority and funding to crack down on privacy violations,  let consumers opt out of having their sensitive personal data collected  and sold, and impose harsh new penalties on a massive data monetization  industry that has for years claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/shownews\/Verizon-Public-Shame-Will-Keep-Us-Honest-About-Privacy-98425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-regulation is all that\u2019s necessary<\/a> to protect consumer privacy. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Wyden\u2019s bill proposes that companies whose revenue exceeds $1 billion  per year\u2014or warehouse data on more than 50 million consumers or consumer  devices\u2014submit \u201cannual data protection reports\u201d to the government  detailing all steps taken to protect the security and privacy of  consumers\u2019 personal information. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The proposed legislation  would also levy penalties up to 20 years in prison and $5 million in  fines for executives who knowingly mislead the FTC in these reports. The  FTC\u2019s authority over such matters is currently limited\u2014one of the  reasons telecom giants have been eager to move oversight of their  industry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/02\/heres-exactly-how-the-internet-is-now-under-threat\/#.ne8k32b3e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from the Federal Communications Commission to the FTC<\/a>. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It does not have a snow-ball&#8217;s chance in hell of passing, but putting prison on the table is the only way to reign these guys in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not talking about the joke asking what one calls, &#8220;500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the ocean,&#8221; but rather the proposal by proposal by Senator Ron Wyden to throw tech execs in jail for violating our privacy. Fines are just a cost of doing business, but if Zuckerberg or Page, or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,449,366,437],"class_list":["post-178532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-legislation","tag-privacy","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}