Senators craft bill to tame social media with privacy requirements
The Senate is trying to tame the Wild West of social media privacy with new legislation that would allow users to opt out of tracking, simplify legalese, and require platforms to notify users of a data breach within 72 hours. On Tuesday, April 24, Senators John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) introduced theSocial Media Privacy and Consumers Rights Act of 2018. “Every day companies profit off of the data they’re collecting from Americans, yet leave consumers completely in the dark about how their personal information, online behavior, and private messages are being used,” Klobuchar said in a statement....