Consumer Confidential: This bill includes prison for CEOs who fail to take consumer privacy seriously
It's gotten to the point that there are so many data breaches, people can find it hard to work up a sense of outrage over their privacy being violated again and again and again.
The business world is counting on such breach fatigue to keep meaningful privacy safeguards at bay.
Consumers shouldn't hand them such a huge victory.
Which is why we should all get behind legislation unveiled by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called the Consumer Data Protection Act. It's a sweeping bill aimed at addressing the nationwide epidemic of data security lapses. And it has teeth.
Not least among its provisions, the bill would impose $5-million fines and up to
