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NetChoice Raises Consumer Privacy Concerns about the ACCESS Act

Today, NetChoice raised concerns about the ACCESS Act, introduced today by Sen. Hawley (R-MO), Sen. Warner (D-VA), and Sen. Blumenthal (D-CT) that the bill is more focused on attacking big tech than protecting and empowering consumers.
“As presented in the ACCESS Act, data portability will inevitably endanger data security,”
said Carl Szabo, Vice President and General Counsel at NetChoice.
“Online hackers and criminals looking to steal consumer data will benefit from the ACCESS Act.”
“These government imposed data portability requirements would make consumer data more vulnerable to abuse.”
The bill could also undermine efforts by market leaders including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter, to introduce data portability in a way that empowers consumers without undermining privacy or data security. The ACCESS Act only aims to regulate large tech businesses with over 100,000,000 active monthly users in the U.S. It also fails to include preemption.
 “By only impacting the largest American businesses, the ACCESS Act is clearly focused more on attacking large tech innovators rather than creating a safe and secure portability system,”
continued Szabo.