On Friday, President Obama announced the release a draft for a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights in order to open the legislation up for discussion. Indeed, much discussion as followed and not all of it is positive.

“In this digital age, particularly as big data innovations drive advances across our economy, more and more data about Americans is being collected and stored,” said a fact sheet announcing the draft legislation. “And, even though responsible companies provide us with tools to control privacy settings and decide how our personal information is used, too many Americans still feel they have lost control over their data.”

However, many believe that the legislation does not go far enough. Some say that it will even disempower current state laws, which in some cases are stricter than this bill.

The major cause of complainant is that the bill in its present form is more of a policy guideline for companies as opposed to a set of enforceable rules on privacy protection. A privacy review board would be established under auspices of the Federal Trade Commission; however, there is a concern that the new board would be a strain on the FTC’s resources.

“It fails to give the FTC, the country’s key privacy regulator, ‘rule-making’ authority to craft reasonable safeguards, and actually empowers the companies that now harvest our mobile, social, location, financial, and health data, leaving them little to fear from regulators,” said Jeffrey Chester, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy.

Still, not everyone was against the bill.

“Key concepts in the bill that will advance the privacy discussion in a very practical way include the focus on context to shape appropriate uses of data, the recognition that assessing benefit and risk is important, and the introduction of Privacy Review Boards as internal or external structures that can help approve beneficial uses of data that could otherwise be constrained by law,” said Jules Polonetsky, the executive director of the Future of Privacy Forum.

The consumer privacy debate, which has been raging for several years now, will most likely continue until the end of Obama’s presidency, perhaps even beyond that. According to a 2014 Pew Research Center survey, over 90 percent of consumers believe that they have lost control over how their personal information is mined and sold by digital companies and the government.