Pack your pyjamas, Zuck: US bill threatens execs with prison for data failures

Pack your pyjamas, Zuck: US bill threatens execs with prison for data failures

5 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/18/us_bill_promises_prison_for_privacy_failures/

A proposed bill in the US aims to give regulators genuine powers to go after companies that fail to protect citizens' privacy up to and including jailing bosses.

The brilliantly titled "Mind Your Own Business Act" (PDF) would give the Federal Trade Commission, which is responsible for privacy protections, the power to do more than just fine companies that drop the ball with their customers' data.