It's worth pushing for this. Most of what little privacy protection we get these days is a side effect of laws in the EU. It would be nice to actually have some of those legal protection here as well.
This would be great, because it would "validate" GDPR.
Data protection requests would be more likely to be planned-for and succeed if users didn't have to say/prove they were an EU citizen.
Certainly, as a UK citizen who has these protections, but not specifically GDPR, it can be difficult leverage these rights.
More countries adopting these kind of laws will hopefully resolve into a global standard of "right to be forgotten", as long as it doesn't collapse into an XKCD#927 scenario (https://xkcd.com/927)
To be honest this doesn't involve any "culture war" dumbassery so unless Fox starts spewing about how the bill is woke and will turn your kids gay I don't think anyone outside of the usual suspects would vote against it.
Then again the GOP will make the most innocuous thing into a political shitshow, so who knows.
Unironically right to be forgotten stuff is a major benefit to a person who's gone through social transition because it does things like let them get rid of their dead name on the internet.
Finally some good stuff, though lobbyists will most likely never let it pass (or drum up some bs about how it "could delete evidence" in some crime case)
I've been reading through the bill and I have concerns. The bill requires data brokers to register with the commission and they store PII sufficient to identify an individual. Because the registered brokers must report back that they've removed the data, it does give the commission an awful lot of data on people's online activities. Not everyone wants their data linked that way. But as long as I can still do things the hard way, I'm not opposed.
Those data brokers also are subject to data retention laws, which were specifically in place to make sure that all data could be collected in a certain time period. It doesn't matter if they delete everything after 6 months so long as it was copied to an entity not subject to these deletion laws by then (and it is)