WYDEN, COLLEAGUES, INTRODUCE MY BODY, MY DATA ACT

June 22, 2022 3:00 a.m. 

On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden introduced legislation that would protect personal reproductive health data in response to the leaked draft decision indicating the Supreme Court’s plans to overturn Roe V. Wade.

Wyden said, “the draft Supreme Court Opinion overturning Roe shows that the fundamental rights of a woman over her own body and privacy are on the chopping block. Congress needs to step up and offer real protections for people seeking reproductive health care, and lots of people seek that care online. It is just common sense that data brokers, tech companies and advertisers shouldn’t be able to put personal, sensitive information on the public auction block for anyone with a credit card”. Wyden said he is proud to work with Congresswoman Jacobs and Senator Hirono to introduce privacy protections for that data “…with real teeth”.

A release said the My Body, My Data Act is the first Congressional action to strengthen digital privacy and protect personal reproductive health information specifically. The bill would create a new national standard to protect personal reproductive health data, enforced by the Federal Trade Commission. The release said by minimizing the personal reproductive health data that is collected and retained, the bill would prevent this information from being disclosed or misused.

A bill summary is linked: https://sarajacobs.house.gov/uploadedfiles/mybodymydataactonepager.pdf