A privacy group has sent a letter to leaders of the US Congress asking them to schedule a vote on an antitrust bill that would would prevent data collection by tech giants and would promote user access to online privacy tools.

The letter is addressed to politicians such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others relevant to both sides of the parliamentary ideological framework. The goal is to reactivate American Online Choice and Innovation Act (AICOA for its acronym in English), which, according to the signatories, allows its deletion “dominant companies restrict competition and limit user choice” in access to privacy-focused technologies and products.

The letter also accuses the tech giants of forcing users to accept their privacy policies. “eternal watch” Due to their status as “watchmen” and use your “impact on society” drive users away from competing services that are more dedicated to privacy.

In addition to organizations supporting digital rights, there are other signatories, including some companies that do alternative products and services to Big Techsuch as Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, Proton or Brave and others from sectors ranging from VPN to web browsing to office software.

We cannot disagree with this initiative or with anyone who tries to help respect the right to privacy, which has been (and is) systematically violated. Data has become a goldmine in today’s age of total connectivity, and Big Tech generally collects, uses and sells user data to third parties. sometimes without their knowledge or express consent. The concentration of services, see Meta, allowed by the same regulators exacerbates this whole problem.

Considering the resources of Big Tech and the legal influence of pressure groups, we do not have much hope that a law like this proposal will be reactivated, passed and implemented. The bill poses a direct threat to the ability of big tech companies to collect data, which they likely will use your generous budgets to convince the politicians of the day.

As a result, AICOA is unlikely to be brought up for debate and even more unlikely to be passed into law before the November elections by the House of Representatives, which has a narrow Democratic majority and a deeply divided Senate. We’ll see after these by-elections.