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by tempie_deleteme 1370 days ago
because of the "war on drugs" was supposed to be about the health of americans, which turned out to be a lie...

I think this is not about protecting the rights to data and privacy of american indivudal citizens...the other kind of american citizen, the american corporation, on the other hand, stands to gain a lot from this.

> To provide consumers with foundational data privacy rights, create strong oversight mechanisms, and establish meaningful enforcement.

ah, so corporations can well-foundedly and meaningfully consume the data of 'consumers' (an euphenism for fuel) in a way such that the historic shadow suckers of everything's energy (banks) can continue to partake on the sucking down of everybody's data/information (with real time measurements, which is a novelty in this ancient system build around trade, commerce, insurance, and power-authority concentration).