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Opinion: US lawmakers float new US privacy legislation – and it’s long overdue

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Why the American Privacy Rights Act sets an important standard.

On Tuesday, the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) unveiled the bipartisan American Privacy Rights Act.

The comprehensive draft legislation sets clear, national data privacy rights and protections, eliminates the existing patchwork