The Broad, Vague RESTRICT Act is a Dangerous Substitute for Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation

TL;DR

The recently introduced RESTRICT Act (S. Couple that with a vague enforcement provision that grants the power to broadly punish any person who “evades” these undefined “mitigation measures,” and the result is a law that can be read as criminalizing common practices like using a VPN to get a prohibited app, side-loaded installations, or using an app that was lawfully downloaded somewhere else. The free flow of information, even if it’s your enemy speaking, is an essential democratic principle

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