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Daily Dashboard | Will GAO Report Spur Action from Congress? Related reading: UK Parliament committee to review EU-UK adequacy agreement

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Last year, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate privacy issues pertaining to companies that collect, aggregate and sell personal information about consumers. In late November, the GAO publicly released the resulting report, "Information Resellers: Consumer Privacy Framework Needs to Reflect Changes in Technology and the Marketplace." The report recommends that Congress "consider strengthening the consumer privacy framework to reflect the effects of changes in technology and the increased market for consumer information." Rockefeller is expected shortly to issue his own report on the topic, and the Federal Trade Commission is also preparing a report expected in early 2014. In this exclusive for Privacy Tracker, the Hogan Lovells privacy team looks at what the GAO examined, and, in the short term, how Congress might respond to the GAO’s findings and, when they are published, Rockefeller’s. Are stronger consumer privacy protections on the way?
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