US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation conduct hearings about the need for federal level privacy law
October 6, 2020
The United States does not have a comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation. Most states in the United States have some form of data protection legislation, including mandatory data breach notification laws. At the Federal level business, in particular those engaged in collecting and selling data, have resisted any attempt to provide some form of regulation on the collection, storage and use of personal information. The dynamics have changed somewhat in the last two years with the outrageous abuse of personal information by Facebook with Cambridge Analytica, Google’s continuous data avarice and significant data breaches involving millions of individuals personal information.
The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held hearings on 23 September 2020 in Washington DC. The hearing was titled Revisiting the Need for Federal Data Privacy Legislation. The purpose was described as Read the rest of this entry »