Ted Cruz prohibits Bill to extend the protection of privacy to all Americans

Senator Ted Cruise (R-TX) has made an effort to issue legislation that would extend the data privacy protection of federal legislators and public officials for all in the United States.

On Monday night, Senator Ron Widan (D-the) asked the US Senate unanimously approving his fellow members of the Senate to pass his legislation. S.2850. Weiden bill, if passed, would have taken it Advanced party provisions It is designed to protect government officials and legislators and their families from selling or circulating by data brokers, and extending them to every American person and living in the United States.

“Members of Congress should not receive special treatment,” Widen said in the Senate Hall. “Our voters deserve protection from violence, chase and other criminal threats.”

Widan added: “Protection of everyone is the most effective way to protect American army and intelligence members, including passengers,” Widan added. Congressional.

Cruz was the only Senator, who claimed without evidence that the Widan Law may disrupt law enforcement, “like knowing where sexual predators live.”

Data brokers are part of the companies of millions of dollars in companies all over the world that benefit from storing and selling access to huge quantities of personal, financial and popular websites for Americans, and are often collected from phones and other Internet -related devices. This data is sold, Including governmentsThose who do not need a commercially obtained data order.

The collection of huge banks from data also comes with their own risks, including Security lapses and Back to the data. The information purchased by data brokers was used for DOX personnel, and in modern cases associated with the last killing of two legislators in Minnesota, their killer He claims that he had the addresses of their home From data brokers.

Cruz also objected to second legislation presented by Widen shortly after, which would have expanded the protection of federal and legislative officials to state officials and employees, as well as the survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

In response, Cruz said he was “interested in expanding the scope of protection to a large world as possible, as possible, but this answer has not yet succeeded.”