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A new US data privacy bill aims to give you more control over information collected about you – and make businesses change how they handle data

  • Written by Anne Toomey McKenna, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond
imageThe U.S. could soon catch up to the European Union in protecting people's data privacy.Teera Konakan/Moment via Getty Images

Data privacy in the U.S. is, in many ways, a legal void. While there are limited protections for health and financial data, the cradle of the world’s largest tech companies, like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta...

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