Democratic Senate members call for reforming the privacy law in response to Doug’s reception

The arbitrary methods that the government applies “routine use” has been criticized at least 1977, when a Blue Committee Rebon The conference stated that federal law enforcement agencies created “broad routine uses”, while other agencies were working in “Quid Pro Quo”-the new “routine uses”, as long as other agencies joined the same thing.

Almost a decade after a decade, you will find a group of residents of Congress that “routine use” has become “Take advantage of all the exemptionFor the law.

In an attempt to stop excessive use of this exemption, the draft law presented by Democratic Senate members includes a new text, as well as the requirements of minimal reduction, any “routine use” for “appropriate” and “reasonable” data will require “reasonable and necessary”, which provides a hook for potential prosecutors in lawsuits against government criminals on the road. At the same time, agencies will be needed to make “any purpose” known to the public that the privacy law record can be used for it.

Cody Venzki, chief political consultant in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), notes that the draft law will also deliver Americans the right to prosecute states and municipalities, while expanding the right to work in violations that can lead to reasonable damage. He says: “Watching the courts and how they dealt with a full set of cases filed under the Privacy Law, it was frustrated to see them unnecessary to take data damage seriously or to identify the possible final damage that could be.” Another major change is that the draft law expands who is already under the privacy law of mere citizens and legal residents to any physically physically within the United States – which carries the law more firmly with the current federal laws that limit access to the most powerful control tools in the government.

In another major item, the bill seeks to curb the so -called government.Computer matching“A process through which the reference of the private records of the person is between two colleges, which helps the government to extract new conclusions that were unable to examine each record alone. This was a loophole that Congress previously recognized in 1988, and it is the first time that it amended the privacy law, which requires the agencies to conclude written agreements before engaging in matching, and calculating matching that may affect the rights of the individual.

The changes imposed under the new democratic bill would extend this protection to various registry systems that one agency maintains. For intelligence, the internal revenue service (IRS) has a single system that contains records about “wrong tax recovered amounts”, while it carries the latest data on “seizing and selling real estate property”. These changes will ensure that the restrictions imposed on matching are still applying, although both systems are controlled by the Tax Authority. Moreover, while the restrictions on matching are not currently extending to “statistical projects”, they will work under the new text, if the purpose of the project may affect “the rights of individuals, benefits, or privileges.” Or – in the case of federal employees – in any “financial or disciplinary or disciplinary procedure”.

The Privacy Law currently imposes a fairly small criminal fines (no more than $ 5,000) against government employees who intentionally reveal Americans’ private records for anyone who is not qualified to receive them. The Democrats Law provides a fine of $ 250,000, as well as the possibility of imprisonment, to anyone who leaks records “for commercial advantage, personal gains or harmful harm.”

The bill has been adopted before Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic) and General citizenTwo non -profit civil freedoms that participate in active litigation against Doug.

“For more than 50 years, Congress approved the privacy law to protect the public from exploiting and abusing their personal information kept by the government,” Marki says in a statement. “Today, with Elon Musk and Dog’s team recklessly seeking to reach the Americans’ sensitive data, it is time to introduce this law in the digital age.”