{"id":19549,"date":"2019-10-17T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=19549"},"modified":"2019-10-17T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T23:33:18","slug":"dem-bill-would-jail-tech-execs-for-lying-about-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=19549","title":{"rendered":"Dem bill would jail tech execs for lying about privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), one of the toughest tech critics in Congress, on Thursday introduced his long-awaited bill that would jail tech executives for lying to the government about privacy violations.<\/p>\n<p>Wyden&#8217;s bill, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nwfjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmrtqwkd_wgldggvlvbdgndvgffng.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nwfjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmrtqwkd_wgldggvlvbdgndvgffng.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1571436735758000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF-5BNPOyjwpotVvxfT8t_U40yXTg\">Mind Your Own Business Act<\/a>, would also offer users unprecedented control over how their data is used and shared, enabling them to tell websites when they don&#8217;t want their online activity to be tracked across the internet.<\/p>\n<p>And the legislation, which Wyden started floating with a discussion draft last year, threatens steep fines and prison terms of up to 20 years for executives at companies that &#8220;misuse&#8221; data.<\/p>\n<p>The statement about the bill mentioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as an example of a tech executive who could face jail time if found to be lying to the government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mark Zuckerberg won&#8217;t take Americans&#8217; privacy seriously unless he feels personal consequences,&#8221; Wyden said in a statement. &#8220;Under my bill, he&#8217;d face jail time for lying to the government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Multiple lawmakers have raised concerns that Zuckerberg misled Congress during last year&#8217;s series of contentious hearings in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, though Facebook has disputed that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), one of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19550,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19549\/revisions\/19550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}