{"id":1297,"date":"2020-03-04T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2020-03-04T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T07:48:08","slug":"title-needed-warren-privacy-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2020\/03\/04\/title-needed-warren-privacy-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"DRAFT: Title needed, something involving Warren, privacy, and Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Draft!\u00a0 Feedback welcome!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Please do not forward!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Washington votes on March 10, along with six other states.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the Washington State Legislature is on the verge of passing a pair of bills, literally written by an Amazon lobbyist and a Microsoft employee, that sell out our privacy and our rights to exploitative tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a perfect opportunity for Elizabeth Warren to highlight her plans to <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/08\/us\/politics\/elizabeth-warren-amazon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/08\/us\/politics\/elizabeth-warren-amazon.html\">rein in big tech<\/a> and <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@teamwarren\/my-plan-to-end-washington-corruption-554c7f01aaa5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@teamwarren\/my-plan-to-end-washington-corruption-554c7f01aaa5\">fight corruption<\/a>\u200a.\u00a0 And as last year&#8217;s successful battle by community and grassroots groups the previous (even worse) version of the privacy bill shows, this is an issue that people in Washington &#8212; like most other states &#8212; really care about.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick summary:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"postList\">\n<li class=\"graf graf--li\">SB 6281, the \u201cWashington Privacy Act\u201d, is basically window dressing\u200a\u2014\u200ait doesn\u2019t protect consumers or hold tech companies accountable.<\/li>\n<li class=\"graf graf--li\">SB 6280 allows government use of facial recognition with no meaningful regulation, let alone the moratorium so many groups are asking for<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tech companies like these bills so much that Microsoft and Amazon are proposing them as models for other states.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/on-the-issues\/2020\/01\/24\/washington-privacy-act-protection\">A post on Microsoft\u2019s blog<\/a> in January is a good example of how brazenly they&#8217;re spinning.\u00a0 For example, Microsoft talks about SB 6281&#8217;s &#8220;strong enforcement&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>even though the Attorney General&#8217;s Office (AGO) had told the Senate that the bill they wound up passing was unenforceable.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em>An amendment in the House has since fixed one of the problems the AGO identified, but the bill&#8217;s current text still includes what the AGO described as \u201cbroad exceptions that would permit industry to sidestep the very consumer rights and obligations created by this bill\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot more wrong with SB 6281; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/opinion\/badly-flawed-data-privacy-bill-does-not-protect-consumers-or-hold-companies-accountable\/\">Flawed data-privacy bill does not protect consumers or hold companies accountable<\/a>, by Jennifer Lee of ACLU Washington, Susan Grant of Consumer Federation of America, and Ed Mierzwinksi of WashPIRG goes into detail on some of the problems; <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-change-is-coming\/a-bad-day-for-a-bad-privacy-bill-a-good-day-for-privacy-a2aeea8e8739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-change-is-coming\/a-bad-day-for-a-bad-privacy-bill-a-good-day-for-privacy-a2aeea8e8739\">A bad day for a bad privacy bill, a good day for privacy<\/a> has a range of other perspectives.\u00a0 Similarly, there&#8217;s also a lot of problems with SB 6280. Tthe ACLU and King County Public Defenders have a solid brief on the legal issues, and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1WlvQmLsgWHP5WpKqMZ4vy9Fgnseb_7_-0MhVXZZKbUs\/edit#\">my followon mail<\/a> to the committee after last week&#8217;s hearing last week covers other aspects.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the tech companies are making massive lobbying investements in these bills, but the coalition on the other side is broad and diverse.\u00a0 An early-February\u00a0 letter demanding a moratorium on facial recognition technology was signed by groups including CAIR Washington, Densho, Entre Hermanos, InterIm Community Development Association, Japanese American Citizens League Seattle Chapter, La Resistencia, MAPS-AMEN (American Muslim Empowerment Network), Puget Sound Sage, Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, Washington Immigration Solidarity Network, and ACLU Washington.\u00a0 Many of these groups testified against 6281 in a pair of hearings last week, as did Black Lives Matter &#8211; Seattle King County and people (including me) representing several Indivisible groups.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a floor vote on both bills in the House this week, and if they pass (as expected) they head back to the Senate.\u00a0 There&#8217;s still time to strengthen them; if not, then it will be another battle against the deep pockets of the tech industry.\u00a0 And other states are watching Washington, which is justifiably seen as a tech hub.\u00a0\u00a0 So it&#8217;s the perfect time for an intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s a lot going on for Warren right now.\u00a0\u00a0 Is there time to reach senior levels of the campaign?\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to know whether it&#8217;ll happen.\u00a0 But if it happens, and she decides to weigh-in, it&#8217;s a potential game-changer for Warren &#8212; in Washington and beyond.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft!\u00a0 Feedback welcome! Please do not forward! Washington votes on March 10, along with six other states.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the Washington State Legislature is on the verge of passing a pair of bills, literally written by an Amazon lobbyist and a Microsoft employee, that sell out our privacy and our rights to exploitative tech companies. 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