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The passing of the bill would make Indonesia the fifth Southeast Asian country to have a specific law on personal data protection after Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.
The responses to the lawmakers haven’t been previously reported, and give insight into how companies are navigating heightened scrutiny on data practices as abortion becomes increasingly criminalized in the US.
It’s unclear whether tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Meta will go to battle to protect women and health-care providers facing possible prosecution over abortions.
Representative Jacobs’ office said that one of the bill’s intents is to protect women seeking abortions from the prying eyes of law enforcement in states where abortion is illegal.
The proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act establishes penalties of C$25 million, or as much as 5% of global revenue, whichever is greater, for companies that breach privacy rules.
The litigation follows a former Facebook employee’s high-profile testimony in Congress that the company refused to take responsibility for harming the mental health of its youngest users.