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Create a federal privacy floor with one interoperable rights interface, strong public and private enforcement, concurrent state enforcement, and room for stronger state protections that preserve national functionality.
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Jul 12, 2026
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
Both 2022 and 2024 federal privacy proposals began with bipartisan leadership and failed to assemble a durable coalition around enforcement, preemption, civil rights, and business duties. The current 2026 vehicle is a House Republican bill criticized by Democratic committee leadership as favoring industry. The Innovation Party's delta is a functional preemption map paired with a private right of action. The national law supplies common definitions, roles, interfaces, signals, and reporting fields. States retain concurrent enforcement and room for compatible stronger protection. This resolves the floor-or-ceiling fight field by field and unpacks the several decisions usually concealed by the word "preemption." The Libertarian Party's platform doesn't stake out an explicit position on a federal privacy agency for the private sector specifically (its privacy plank is about government surveillance and Fourth Amendment protection, a related but distinct question). Libertarian-aligned commentary is generally skeptical of a new federal bureaucracy, which is worth naming as the clearest philosophical objection to Proposal 2 this plank doesn't fully answer.
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