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Santa Clara – Today, following Tim Cook's remarks at the 40th International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners, Rep. Ro Khanna issued the following statement:
"These are a well-crafted set of principles necessary for federal privacy law reform in the United States. I applaud Tim Cook for articulating clear and simply stated principles and leading on these issues."
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Often the most critical parts of major legislation are the most boring. For those of us working to bring government into the digital age, the bipartisan 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act, known as the 21st Century IDEA Act, is an incredibly important piece of legislation which gets the big things right. Its downside is that it's not boring enough.
It's no secret that the situation in Yemen is grim. The numbers are repeated in press reports and diplomatic statements ad nauseam: likely tens of thousands of civilian casualties; more than a million cases of cholera over the past year; 8 million people in danger of facing starvation, 5 million of them children; 22 million in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. Civilians are getting blown up at weddings, at funerals, while fishing. They're selling organs to make ends meet and cooking tree leaves to survive. It's "the world's worst humanitarian crisis."
Google, Facebook Inc. and other online companies can expect greater scrutiny and possibly legislation from a Democratic-led Congress, a Silicon Valley lawmaker close to the party leadership said.
Representative Ro Khanna, whose California district is home to companies including Apple Inc. and Intel Corp., said in an interview that episodes like the leak of Facebook users' data to Cambridge Analytica and last year's breach of consumer information by Equifax Inc. had amounted to a "wake-up call" that rules are needed.
Washington, DC – U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Mark Pocan (WI-02) today circulated a letter to their colleagues, requesting that Members of Congress join them in calling on Daniel Coats, Director of National Intelligence, to release information regarding the U.S. intelligence community's advance knowledge of Saudi Arabia's plot to capture journalist and American resident Jamal Khashoggi.
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to safeguard our freedoms in the physical world. Today, as Americans are living more of their lives online, the digital age demands that we have new rights to protect our freedoms in the cyber world.
In August, the world watched in horror as a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Yemen claimed the lives of 40 innocent children. The boys, many under the age of 10, were killed when their school bus was bombed during a class trip. The weapon used in that deadly bombing was made in America.