The California State Assembly, where a debate will take place later this year over a "right to know" bill that would give citizens unprecedented access to personal data held by companies.
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The European Union has long championed its citizens' right to submit requests for data that companies hold on them in order to ensure the information is up to date and correct. In recent years, an Austrian law student brought this "habeas data" right into the public spotlight by demanding his Facebook data from the social network.
Americans don't have this right -- and generally, relative to the EU, they have little legal protection from the state or federal government against data theft, unauthorized disclosures, and other privacy-related matters.
Though the EU and the U.S. have never seen eye to eye on matters of data privacy and data protection in the legislative realm, that may change in the form of a new California "right to know" law currently in the proposal stage.
That is, if Silicon Valley doesn't fight back with the full force of its political lobby.
Unprecedented level of data disclosure Following lobbying efforts from two major U.S. privacy groups -- the ... [Read more]
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