Mark Z, how do you feel about orange? Like, say, in a jumpsuit style? Kidding! No court has found that you, the Facebook CEO, has purposefully misled the government about how your company did/did not protect consumers’ data during, say, the multifaceted, ever-unfolding, Cambridge Analytica privacy debacle.
Senator Ron Wyden’s on the case, though, and has now put on the table a bill that would throw execs into jail for up to 20 years if they play loosey-goosey with consumer privacy. Under his proposed bill, introduced on Thursday and called the Consumer Data Protection Act, execs who knowingly mislead the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about how their companies protect consumer data could face up to 20 years in prison and $5 million fines.

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