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Energy and Commerce Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., said it is her "biggest fear" arsenic a genitor for her children’s delicate information to beryllium exploited online, and she is aiming to quell those fears for herself and millions of Americans pinch a caller national information privacy standard.
"There’s very vulnerable activity online, and information postulation is foundationally really these algorithms are developed and past yet utilized to target children, but besides group successful general," Rodgers told Fox News Digital successful an interview.
"This is really my biggest fearfulness arsenic a parent, having 3 school-aged children, different friends who person had kids that person been targeted online. We cognize that these algorithms person been targeting children pinch vulnerable content, targeted advertizing that leads to vulnerable life-threatening behaviors."
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers is moving connected a caller national information privateness standard. (Getty Images)
Rodgers cited reports astir predatory groups and malign actors who target children connected societal media, usually connecting pinch them via nan wealthiness of individual information floating online.
"We've each heard measurement excessively galore stories of nan eating disorders, nan intelligence wellness issues that are increasing, self-harm. Unfortunately, kids person been connected pinch supplier dealers aliases been sold pills that are tainted pinch fentanyl and died," she said.
The Washington Republican teamed up pinch Senate Committee connected Commerce, Science and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., to unveil a bipartisan model aimed astatine giving Americans much power complete individual information they stock online and empowering them to return action erstwhile that delicate accusation falls prey to bad actors.
It would besides minimize nan magnitude of delicate data, for illustration location accusation and biometrics, that companies tin cod without expressed permission.
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers teamed up pinch Senate Committee connected Commerce, Science and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., pictured here, to unveil nan bipartisan framework. (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)
"This measure has highly beardown accountability measures," she said, adding that it would springiness nan Federal Trade Commission and authorities attorneys wide nan expertise to spell aft those malign forces.
It besides gives group nan correct to writer if a institution does not respect their wishes and continues to harvest and waste their information without their permission, and if a data breach aliases hack caused "clear harm," Rodgers explained.
Rodgers told Fox News Digital to expect a proceeding this week arsenic nan authorities originates to make its measurement done Congress.
The eager connection would group nan first-ever national information privateness modular if passed. However, nan rumor of information privateness has been astir for a agelong clip – almost arsenic agelong arsenic nan net itself.
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers expressed interest complete really Americans' personification information could beryllium exploited online, peculiarly children's delicate information. (CyberGuy.com)
"It is imperative that we move this bill. It's been decades that Congress has been grappling pinch a privateness information information law, and it is past clip for america to put group successful power of their data," she said.
Rodgers added that it besides sets Congress up to woody pinch early information privateness issues that could travel pinch nan accelerated advancement of exertion for illustration artificial intelligence (AI).
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"This is foundational for AI. For example, there's a batch of buzz correct now pinch AI and these ample datasets that are going to beryllium collected – monolithic amounts of data, and there's nary limitation correct now connected a company's expertise to cod each kinds of information delicate information connected Americans," she said. "Establishing a nationalist privateness modular is going to beryllium foundational to AI, but also, it's really important to protecting our kids online…parents and each Americans cognize that we request this."
Elizabeth Elkind is simply a authorities newsman for Fox News Digital starring sum of nan House of Representatives. Previous integer bylines seen astatine Daily Mail and CBS News.
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