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> Telecommunications giants like Verizon and AT&T
> will not have to take “reasonable measures” to
> ensure that their customers’ Social Security
> numbers, web browsing history and other personal
> information are not stolen or accidentally
> released.
>
> Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan
> Chase will not be punished, at least for now, for
> not collecting extra money from customers to cover
> potential losses from certain kinds of high-risk
> trades that helped unleash the 2008 financial
> crisis.
>
> And Social Security Administration data will no
> longer be used to try to block individuals with
> disabling mental health issues from buying
> handguns, nor will hunters be banned from using
> lead-based bullets, which can accidentally poison
> wildlife, on 150 million acres of federal
> lands.These are just a few of the more than 90
> regulations that federal agencies and the
> Republican-controlled Congress have delayed,
> suspended or reversed in the month and a half
> since President Trump took office, according to a
> tally by The New York Times.
>
> On a near daily basis, regulated industries are
> now sending in specific requests to the Trump
> administration for more rollbacks, including
> recent appeals from 17 automakers to rescind an
> agreement to increase mileage standards for their
> fleets, and another from pharmaceutical industry
> figures to reverse a new rule that tightens
> scrutiny over the marketing of prescription drugs
> for unapproved uses. As of late Friday, word had
> leaked that the automakers’ request for a
> rollback was about to be granted, too.
>
>
>
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/us/politics/tru
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