With the surprising emergence of the draft American Privacy Rights Act last week, stakeholders are still piecing together the puzzle ahead of the first legislative activity on the discussion draft by the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Innovation, Data and Commerce Subcommittee, which ...

At a time when no one expected progress on the U.S. federal privacy front, a new discussion draft for a comprehensive consumer privacy bill has emerged with bipartisan and bicameral support. On Sunday 7 April, House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and Senate ...

U.S. regulators across the federal bureaucracy are taking a more holistic approach to consumer data protection, according to U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra. During a 4 April appearance at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024, Chopra indicated the federal government i...

The surprising news of fresh bipartisan legislation that would set a comprehensive national privacy standard in the U.S. sent ripples through the privacy space, with reaction from several quarters of the policymaking spectrum.  The proposed American Privacy Rights Act, which was shared Sunday by U....

Despite unexpected movement from U.S. Congress on a proposed comprehensive federal privacy law, U.S. state legislatures remain committed to passing state-level legislation in the absence of a federal standard. However, the Maryland General Assembly is not exactly following in other state's footsteps...