{"id":27324,"date":"2025-04-08T12:56:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=27324"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:56:48","slug":"sens-ossoff-cassidy-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-give-americans-control-of-their-online-data","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sens-ossoff-cassidy-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-give-americans-control-of-their-online-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Ossoff &#038; Cassidy Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Give Americans Control of Their Online Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Sen. Ossoff is working to rein in unauthorized data uses by brokers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Users will be able to ask hundreds of data brokers to delete their private data at once<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington D.C. \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working across the aisle to put Americans back in control of their own data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sens. Ossoff, Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), and Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-NM) recently introduced the bipartisan&nbsp;<em>Data Elimination and Limiting Extensive Tracking and Exchange (DELETE) Act<\/em>, legislation that would enable and empower Americans to request that data brokers delete their personal data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>DELETE Act<\/em>&nbsp;would direct the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to create an online tool where Americans can submit a one-time data deletion request to all registered data brokers that hold their personal data. The bill would also create a \u2018do not track list\u2019 to prohibit companies from collecting these users\u2019 data in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cData brokers are buying, collecting, and reselling vast amounts of personal information about all of us without our consent. This bipartisan bill is about returning control of our personal data to us, the American people,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data brokers are companies that collect, use, and sell personal data without a person\u2019s knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MUR252357.pdf\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to read the bipartisan&nbsp;<em>DELETE Act<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ossoff is working to rein in unauthorized data uses by brokers Users will be able to ask hundreds of data brokers to delete their private data at once Washington D.C. \u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working across the aisle to put Americans back in control of their own data. Sens. Ossoff, Bill Cassidy, M.D. [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27324","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27326,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27324\/revisions\/27326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}