Unpacking the SECURE Data Act

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With artificial intelligence systems increasingly deployed by companies and governments to hoover up every possible unit of data and to make consequential decisions about people's employment, benefits, credit, education, housing, and health care, the United States still has no comprehensive federal privacy law.

This week, House Republicans put a new bill on the table. But today’s guest says it has significant structural weaknesses even as it seeks to preempt stronger state protections that are already in place. Let’s jump right in.

Writing for Tech Policy Press, Eric Null, director of the Privacy & Data Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology, says “Without significant improvements, the Act would fail to protect peoples’ privacy while giving companies a free pass to continue engaging in the same data practices consumers have grown to hate.”

A transcript is forthcoming.