33 Matching Annotations
  1. Apr 2022
    1. the Secretary

      changed from "president, or federal agency providing the support or access" and providing this agreement to Secretary of Commerce to writing agreement to Secretary of State

  2. Feb 2022
  3. www.cassidy.senate.gov www.cassidy.senate.gov
    1. determines that the risk of making 1such information available is not in the in-2terest of public safety or welfare;

      Could this be influenced by outside interests?

    2. does not 12include a one-time or occasional sale of as-13sets of an entity as part of a transfer of 14control of those assets that is not part of 15the ordinary conduct of the entity

      so if business is changing hands and it's only a one time exchange, as opposed to repeatedly selling Americans' data

    3. Gathering, preparing, collecting, 4photographing, recording, writing, editing, 5reporting, or publishing news or informa-6tion that concerns local, national, or inter-7national events or other matters of public 8interest for dissemination to the public.

      does not apply to journalists

    4. credentialing 9process and, if so, a description of that 10process.

      credentialing process= steps taken to identify entity with whom data is exchanged and what they use it for

    5. the number of times the data 1broker collected personal information

      is there an acceptable number of times? considering this bill is outlawing it?

    6. Any personal information 10necessary to comply with a warrant, 11subpoena, court order, rule, or other 12applicable law

      an existing or potential future warrant etc?

    7. Any personal information that 4is processed or maintained solely as 5part of human subjects research con-6ducted in compliance with any legal 7requirements for the protection of 8human subjects.

      they're allowed to keep information that is legal as human subject research, just follow all laws protecting these humans

    8. submit hashed 16queries

      This means brokers access this information, cross-reference it with their records, and delete whoever they find. Will this cause problems with address/name changes, same names, etc?

    9. has been stored in the centralized sys-4tem for 2 years

      So 2 years later data is fair game again, unless individuals submit the request again. So not one time.

    10. standardized form shall in-4clude the individual’s email, phone number, 5physical address, and any other persistent 6identifier

      notable?

    11. standardized form

      better be user friendly. Also will data brokers display this form somewhere on their website or make instructions pertaining to it readily available?

    12. allows an individual, through a 5single submission, to request that every 6data broker who is registered under sub-7section (a) and who maintains any per-8sistent identifiers (as described in subpara-9graph (B)(iii)) delete any personal infor-10mation related to such individual held by 11such data broker or affiliated legal entity 12of the data broker.

      Main point: I like it. I don't know if there are any journalists who rely on this kind of data for newsgathering? Also how does Commission ensure that the data does get deleted? Can data really be entirely deleted, forever? Does this address back up storage?

    13. third party

      so FTC would be third party? Will there be some data brokers that are not affected by this bill? E.g. are not all data brokers required to allow an opt out of data collection?

    14. and for other purposes.

      will this enable the same data to be accessible to the government, or is it just an avenue through which Americans can submit requests to delete and opt out?

    15. egister

      Is there anywhere data brokers are already registered? If not, how will the commission keep track of who has and hasn't registered? How will this be enforced?