The U.S. Senate commerce committee held a hearing this week on “consumer online privacy,” but it consisted mostly of talking with little to no consensus on what action should be taken (if any) to regulate Internet data collection. The bottom line: don’t expect any actual legislation to be passed anytime soon. You can read more about the hearings and some of the subjects that were discussed in this article:
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