Patrick Leahy actually said...

I am going to be introducing a bill very shortly to update ECPA, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

virtually no legal restriction on providers' ability to share that with other third parties.

The true irony is that not only has Google brought this regulation to our doorstep, the level of vertical integration they enjoy makes them ...

Among other things it would establish a national standard for notifying consumers about data breaches involving their personal information.