The floodgates have opened for consumer privacy bills in Congress, with the latest legislation from four Democratic senators creating a broad set of new privacy rights.

The Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act, or COPRA, introduced in late November, won praise from several privacy advocates. The bill gives U.S. consumers the right to be free from deceptive and harmful data practices, financial and reputational injury, and data handling actions that a reasonable person would find intrusive.

The bill also requires companies handling personal data to give consumers detailed information about how their data is used and shared. It gives consumers the right to control the movement of the data, including the power to prevent companies from sharing it with third parties, and it gives them the right to delete or correct their personal data held by a company.

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