{"id":269505,"date":"2026-06-10T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/editorial-federal-privacy-bill-has-a-big-hole\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:55:19","slug":"editorial-federal-privacy-bill-has-a-big-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/editorial-federal-privacy-bill-has-a-big-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Federal privacy bill has a big hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editorial: Federal privacy bill has a big hole<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/bendbulletin.com\/2026\/06\/10\/editorial-federal-privacy-bill-has-a-big-hole-consumers\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-10 13:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: bendbulletin.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Editorial: Federal privacy bill has a big hole<\/h2>\n

Published 10:00 am Wednesday, June 10, 2026<\/p>\n

Privacy is losing. And the SECURE Data Act is another in a series of Congressional attempts to create an overall federal policy to protect consumer data from being scooped up. <\/p>\n

It does make sense to have a federal policy, rather than every state designing its own laws. But Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz, a Republican, raised a key problem with any proposed fix for privacy laws based on personal consent.<\/p>\n

If you are like Bentz, or us for that matter, you just click approve and don\u2019t bother to read the pages of the \u201cterms of use\u201d or \u201cterms of service\u201d agreements. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat good, I asked, is a right to such consent if you don\u2019t read all those pages of \u2018lawyer-ese\u2019 language, or worse, if you do but don\u2019t understand it?\u201d Bentz wrote. <\/p>\n

You can find some of what he said about the bill here: tinyurl.com\/Bentzprivacy.<\/p>\n

The bill doesn\u2019t propose a solution to this problem. It calls for a study. To be fair, there is no easy answer. <\/p>\n

There are other challenges in the bill, as well. <\/p>\n

It should be easy to opt out of sharing your data across every website. The bill does not have that. <\/p>\n

There is a section of the bill called \u201cdata minimization.\u201d It doesn\u2019t minimize much of any consumer data capture. It allows collection of personal consumer data up to what is reasonably necessary \u201cto each purpose for which the data is processed as disclosed to the consumer.\u201d When consumers aren\u2019t fully reading disclosures, that is virtually meaningless.<\/p>\n

Some states do have stronger consumer privacy laws than this federal law. They would be superseded by the bill.<\/p>\n

Consumers would not be able to sue companies for lack of compliance with this law directly. It would be up to the federal government or state attorneys general. Some consumers won\u2019t…<\/p>\n

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