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84% of Americans want tougher online privacy laws, but Congress is too corrupt to follow through

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A new survey from U.S. News and World Report found 84% of Americans want Congress to pass tougher online privacy laws.

Congress has been deadlocked for years on the issue.

The federal government is disincentivized from passing a nationwide privacy law for the internet era because they’ve found that buying consumer data from data brokers is a wonderful way to avoid having to get a traditional warrant.

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62

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informal

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English

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66

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