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Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation

created: March 16, 2026, 1:58 a.m. | updated: March 16, 2026, 9:48 a.m.

Your child's school has a wealth of data spread through untrustworthy vendors including health records, birth certificates, videos, photos. Surveillance companies are scraping and cataloging faces, and where and when those photos were taken. Private actors are building a dataset including yard signs, bumper stickers, and other devices meant for neighborhood expression, not databases. Together, these systems create an ever-growing dossier of private life that can be exploited by corporations, data brokers, contractors, and the state. It should no less condemn the invasion of the private life, the disturbance of the mind, the humiliation of exposure, and the slow theft of the right to be let alone.

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