{"id":58,"date":"2026-02-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=58"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:00:00","slug":"america-desperately-needs-new-privacy-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"America desperately needs new privacy laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eye looking through a window\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/268314_Stepback-_The_US_desperately_needs_privacy_rights_CVirginia2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>This is <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/the-stepback-newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Stepback<\/a><em>, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the dire state of tech regulation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/adi-robertson\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/adi-robertson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow Adi Robertson<\/a>. <\/em>The Stepback<em> arrives in our subscribers&#8217; inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for <\/em>The Stepback<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-none\">How it started<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In 1973, long before the modern digital era, the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) published a report called &#8220;Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens.&#8221; Networked computers seemed &#8220;destined to become the principal medium for making, storing, and using records about people,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opcl\/docs\/rec-com-rights.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the report&#8217;s foreword began<\/a>. These systems could be a &#8220;powerful management  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/882516\/privacy-laws-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}