Senate committee revisits the need for federal data privacy legislation

Federal Issues U.S. Senate Privacy/Cyber Risk & Data Security GDPR Covid-19 Hearing

On September 16, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announced it will convene a hearing on September 23 to “examine the current state of consumer data privacy and legislative efforts to provide baseline data protections for all Americans.”  The hearing will also examine the lessons learned from the EU’s Global Data Protection Regulation and recently enacted state privacy laws, along with the data privacy impacts from Covid-19.

The current slate of key witnesses include a number of former chairmen and commissioners of the FTC.