This is in relation to the Cambridge Analytica (CA) data scandal which broke out in the open sometime in March of this year. GSR, in turn, obtained Facebook data via an API, which was also provided by Facebook. ome of the more prominent federal privacy laws include the following—Federal Trade Commission Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, and Electronic Communications Privacy Act. If and when, a comprehensive legislation on data privacy becomes necessary, can we expect our lawmakers to craft a really functioning law? How can our lawmakers regulate the Internet when in the first place they don’t even seem to know the basics of the Internet of things?

Source: Manila Times April 13, 2018 16:18 UTC