{"id":213783,"date":"2026-02-15T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/privacy-laws-are-outmoded-heres-how-to-update-them\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:50:08","slug":"privacy-laws-are-outmoded-heres-how-to-update-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/privacy-laws-are-outmoded-heres-how-to-update-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Laws Are Outmoded. Here’s How To Update Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Privacy Laws Are Outmoded. Here’s How To Update Them<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/privacy-laws-outmoded-heres-them-150118953.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-15 10:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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When I joined Palantir in 2010 to cofound its Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineering team, the proliferation of Internet services and post-9\/11 acknowledgement of intelligence failures signaled imminent updates to Americas data privacy laws. If you had asked me then whether the Privacy Act of 1974, our nations anchor legislation for overseeing the governments use of personal information, was ripe for an update, Id have speculated that “its surely coming any day now.” Over a decade and a half later, Im still waiting in dismay.<\/p>\n

In 2026, we are living through transformative technological changes. Frontier software and artificial intelligence systems rely on massive troves of data and incorporate analytical practices that could not have been conceived even a few years ago. Americans generate more data on their smartphones in a day than the entire federal government possessed in 1974.<\/p>\n

More critically, that data exists in forms the Privacy Act could not have foreseen. Today, it is well known that multiple sets of anonymized data can be used to re-identify individuals whose data should remain protected. In other words, one cannot effectively protect individual privacy rights without competently addressing the challenges raised by expansive (and growing) data collection and aggregation.<\/p>\n

The law hasn’t kept pace with these technical realities, and this gap impacts every American. More than ever before, as a privacy professional working on cutting-edge software systems, I believe privacy reform is urgently needed to address the concerns of Americans – spanning the political spectrum – who have lost trust in public sector institutions to ensure their privacy rights emanate from constitutional and legislative protections. Fortunately, there are several common-sense reforms that could serve as a basis for modernizing the Privacy Act and restoring this broken trust.<\/p>\n

First, Congress must craft a law which recognizes a new definition of personal data as it manifests in modern…<\/p>\n

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