America desperately needs new privacy laws

Source: The Verge

How it started

In 1973, long before the modern digital era, the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) published a report called “Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens.” The report’s foreword began:

Networked computers seemed “destined to become the principal medium for making, storing, and using records about people.”
These systems could be a “powerful management …”

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