{"id":4148,"date":"2022-12-12T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2022\/12\/12\/a-coordinated-effort-not-to-mention-the-elephant\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:53:07","slug":"a-coordinated-effort-not-to-mention-the-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2022\/12\/12\/a-coordinated-effort-not-to-mention-the-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"ADPPA and a “coordinated effort” not to mention the elephant: Federal privacy legislation update, December 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated December 15.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Even as enthusiasm among ADPPA’s most optimistic supporters remains high<\/a>, its prospects are limited this late in the term. Barring miraculous inclusion in a must-pass spending measure, the highest possible outcome for the bill this year is symbolic passage in the House.<\/p>\n

There appears to have been a coordinated effort underway this week to accomplish that limited goal, which the bill’s supporters believe will put them on stronger footing for 2023.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 IAPP Managing Director Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, Privacy compromise: As seen on TV<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even though Congress about to leave town and time is ticking down for any action on privacy legislation this session, there’s been a sudden flurry of activity on the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). \u00a0A glowing editorial<\/a> supporting ADPPA in the Washington Post, a long interview<\/a> with the sponsors on ABC Live that left Cobun “starry-eyed,” a spin-filled TechDirt<\/em> article<\/a> by David Morar of New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) … yeah, it sure seems like a “coordinated effort.” And what a surprise, none of them mention the elephant in the room.<\/p>\n

On Twitter, Zweifel-Keegan clarified<\/p>\n

when I say “coordinated effort” I mean the appearance of a coordinated effort among civil society groups and the bill’s sponsors. This last-minute effort, like most of the ADPPA saga so far, does not carry many fingerprints of Industry\u2122\ufe0f<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Joe Jerome of Facebook liked his tweet so it must be true! \u00a0Although … the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos. ABC is owned by Disney. New America’s funding<\/a> includes $9.4 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, $4,000,000 from ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy Schmidt, $1,885,000 from Google, $550,000 from Amazon, $300,000 from Microsoft, $7,300,000 from Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, and $2,000,000 from Reid Hoffman. \u00a0So call me cynical, but if you look hard enough there might just be some industry influence here.<\/p>\n

After all, as New America’s Morar points out in the TechDirt article, there are “myriad reasons why companies might support regulation.” \u00a0So before we get to the elephant, let’s look at some of the reasons Big Tech might be supporting this particular regulation. \u00a0The current version of ADPPA:<\/p>\n