Republican senators tell FTC to back off data security, surveillance rules
US federal rulemaking on surveillance and data privacy should be left to Congress, not American consumer watchdog agencies — or states — according to a trio of Republican senators.
In a letter to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, Senators Kevin Cramer , Cynthia Lummis , and Marco Rubio , urged the agency to back off its proposed rule-making process on commercial surveillance and data security. These are"complex" issues that require"robust, adaptive" standards that balance consumers' best interests and businesses' needs, the three wrote ["We believe that this balance can only be struck within federal legislation that is comprehensive and preemptive, such that the law creates a single national standard," according to the letter.
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