U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, has announced draft legislation for a data protection bill that would impose steep criminal penalties for violations of the law, including heavy fines for companies and possible 10-to-20-year prison sentences for senior executives at the world’s largest data collectors.

Wyden announced Nov. 1 that he is seeking feedback on what he calls the Consumer Data Protection Act of 2018. If introduced and passed as it is currently written, the bill would allow the Federal Trade Commission to establish minimum privacy and cybersecurity standards and would allow for a national “do not track” system that would allow consumers to see which companies have their data. It also would allow for consumers to tell third-party companies to delete their information.

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