Consent questions raised at data privacy bill hearing, Roll Call

Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., had questions about what real consent looks like online, noting that he often scrolls quickly through policies and automatically clicks “yes. “The way this works, you harvest this data from millions of people. And so to suggest that these companies are going to go to millions of people and ascertain that each one has reached that level of consent seems highly unlikely,” Bentz said. The bill defines consent as a “a clear affirmative act that signifies the freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous agreement by a consumer to process personal data relating to the consumer.”

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