Mind Your Own Business Act Holds Corporations, Executives Accountable with Steep Fines, Jail Time
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., introduced sweeping new privacy legislation, the Mind Your Own Business Act, to create strong protections for Americans’ private data and to hold accountable the corporate executives responsible for abusing information.
Wyden’s bill contains some of the most comprehensive protections for Americans’ private data ever introduced, and goes further than Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), says the press release. It would give American consumers an easy, one-click way to stop companies from selling or sharing their personal information, give consumers radical transparency into how corporations use and share their data and impose harsh fines and even prison terms for executives at corporations that misuse Americans’ data and lie about those practices to the government.