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This correspondence advocates for the enactment of comprehensive federal data privacy legislation comparable to the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Currently, the personal information of individuals across the United States remains vulnerable to malicious actors. Entities claiming to remove such data from the internet are performing minimal services at excessive costs. Such protections should be implemented by default. Following a January 2026 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settlement, General Motors (GM) is banned for five years from sharing consumer driving behavior and precise location data with third-party data brokers, following allegations of unauthorized data sales. This is a step in the right direction, as the data being collected in this instance was said to be extremely personal and private in nature. However, simply banning this for only five years is a slap on the wrist. We need to be protecting all Americans' sensitive personal information online so that those who wish to hurt or deceive us are unable to do so as easily. With this sort of information being as accessible as it is, scammers are able to target victims more easily, and those who want to harass and harm others can track them down to do so. This cannot be allowed to happen any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter.