Op-ed: The lack of comprehensive privacy protection threatens US democracy

The U.S. is facing “creeping authoritarianism,” Thor Benson writes for Wired. Experts advocated for policymaking that fundamentally ingrains privacy in law so those mechanisms could not be abused by a future autocratic leader. He said some experts claim the American Data Privacy and Protection Act does not establish strong enough privacy protections for individuals. The Federal Trade Commission’s data collection rulemaking for Big Tech could diminish an authoritarian government’s “ability to ‘co-opt our own devices against us.’”