You ban monetization of the data. The federal government has the power to regulate interstate commerce.
States can ban this behavior as well.
Furthermore, legislators can create a right to privacy in the law, letting people sue companies who collect this data. And to top it off, states and the federal government can make corporate officers personally liable for collecting this information without consent.
With Lina Khan biding time in NYC, I do believe we are going to see this change very soon. I don't think there will be any public sympathy for tech companies in the next political cycle.
Unlike normal activities, driving is an overtly public act. You need permission to do it, and it’s entirely reasonable for the state to monitor you doing it.
Don't ISPs now provide ipv6 addresses? Why not just connect directly home via ipv6 address. I think many ISPs in Asia where ipv4 addresses are scarce have been moving to MAP-e, which is ipv6 centric.
I don't see why I want to loop in a 3rd party to connect back to my house.
Just to add to this, customers are paying for a human to take responsibility for getting a job done. An amorphous "AI" cannot take responsibility and therefore does not merit the funds being spent on things like this report.
I most humbly suggest that your finger is pointed in the wrong direction.
The ASMR deportation videos from the Homeland Security department and the fetish this maga movement seems to have in brutalizing foreigners coming to the US would indicate to me that the paperwork is not the problem.
Maybe that is the underlying point. Why does the US government, this administration, and its supporters have a fetish for chaining up foreigners and putting them in deportation camps housed no better than cattle (alligator alcatraz?)? Do they not consider the consequences of this?
US sales pitch: "Please build factories here, but I reserve the right at my own discretion with no warning to parade your employees in chains and stuff them into poorly maintained detention centers. Then to kick them out of the country and blame you.".
So the US government does a dog and pony show of ASMR chaining and perp walking Korean engineers constructing a factory vital to our economy and national security?
And this after the admin starts a tariff war against treaty allies for not building factories in the US? Very schizo.
This whole situation is complete insanity and is completely the fault of this administration and the maga movement.
It’s also the fault of the last administration, because when you bend the rules and your reign ends, you have no control over how the next regime is going to enforce the law as it stands. I do not disagree this is insanity, but this is the result of kicking the can on immigration issues for almost two decades. Congress must do its job, but refuses to. Is it not reasonable to both incentivize domestic manufacturing investment while also adhering to immigration visa regulations?
Hyundai has done something similar with children refugees from Central America previously in 2022.
The executive branch EXECUTES what the legislative branch LEGISLATES. Congress is article ONE of the constitution. The executive branch is article TWO. Take this to mean that Congress is the boss, not the president.
The two million employees including 1M+ military members are not private employees of the president. Everyone's job is to execute the will of CONGRESS.
The consequences of messing up custody of information on 330M+ American citizen is severe enough to require Congressional oversight and approval of big changes.
Changing how the data is managed warrants that.
I personally have a lot of questions for how this new arrangement was made. Was it made in secret from Congress? Who is overseeing the transfer of data and access controls? Who is doing the auditing? These questions should have been answered in front on Congress. When is DOGE going to testify in front of Congress under oath as to what they were doing?
Btw, wasn't that big balls guy from DOGE in the news recently for some borderline criminally negligent treatment of sensitive data on Americans?
You are just plain wrong about Congress and about the executive branch, but spot on about the president.
The president’s job is to execute the laws of the US, and is laid out clearly in article 2 of the constitution. I’ll go one further, it’s to “faithfully” execute the laws of the US- Article 2, section 1, clause 8.
The Constitution explicitly vests all executive authority in one person - the President. This is done in the “Vesting Clause” of article 2. This means it is the presidents job- alone- to execute the laws. Congress appropriates money for the executive branch to hire people, and Congress may organize the executive branch into departments headed by appointees of the President but approved by the Senate; nothing in that takes away from the President’s sole executive power and responsibility; it just gives him the resources he needs to do his job.
Congress’ powers are strictly enumerated in Article 1 of the Constitution- in fact they are explicitly listed in Article 1, section 8.
You are just wrong about Congressional supremacy. The Constitution is designed to establish 3 co-equal branches of government and a system of checks and balances.
It is absolutely up for debate whether Trump is incorrectly arrogating to himself powers reserved to Congress- the Supreme Court hasn’t ruled on many issues yet where this is the core controversy. It’s widely expected that Trump will ultimately lose at the Supreme Court on his use of tariffs for this reason.
Re: SSA data. It is absolutely the right (and responsibility) of Congress to have hearings on the matter. Their only recourse in response should they not like what they find is to cut off the money (technically they could impeach the president but I think that not even the most generous reading of “high crimes and misdemeanors” by fair minded people would include data handling practices.
I smell a digital service tax coming on all the FANG shmang companies who have been making bank off our allies.
I don't see how Zuckerberg, Bezos, or anyone in the tech industry is going to come out of this unscathed with this kind of attitude prevalent in the tech industry. Maybe they think either there will be no consequences or they can make enough money off of the US market alone.
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