Sens. Ossoff & Cassidy Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Give Americans Control of Their Online Data

Sen. Ossoff is working to rein in unauthorized data uses by brokers

Users will be able to ask hundreds of data brokers to delete their private data at once

Washington D.C. - U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working across the aisle to put Americans back in control of their own data.

Sens. Ossoff, Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) recently introduced the bipartisan Data Elimination and Limiting Extensive Tracking and Exchange (DELETE) Act, legislation that would enable and empower Americans to request that data brokers delete their personal data.

The DELETE Act would direct the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to create an online tool where Americans can submit a one-time data deletion request to all registered data brokers that hold their personal data. The bill would also create a 'do not track list' to prohibit companies from collecting these users' data in the future.

"Data brokers are buying, collecting, and reselling vast amounts of personal information about all of us without our consent. This bipartisan bill is about returning control of our personal data to us, the American people," Sen. Ossoff said.

Data brokers are companies that collect, use, and sell personal data without a person's knowledge.

Click here to read the bipartisan DELETE Act.

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