A federal privacy law is still a blip on the horizon. But listening to members of the Senate Commerce Committee dig into the details on legislative proposals to protect consumer data privacy at a hearing on the topic held Wednesday morning, you wouldn’t be laughed out of a room if you said that a bipartisan […]
As the specter of California’s Consumer Privacy Act looms over the tech world, many industry giants and trade groups have assumed a new role as collective cheerleader for broad federal privacy legislation. It wasn’t all that long ago that tech companies balked at the idea, but many have changed their tune. That has some Democrats […]
California’s consumer privacy law, passed in late June, has spurred demand for federal regulations to avoid a patchwork of state-by-state rules. To discuss what federal privacy laws might look like, representatives from AT&T, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple and Charter Communications met with the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on Wednesday in Washington, DC. […]
