Upcoming event
At this meeting, the Task Force will hear updates from the Working Group leadership.
Legislation
H.J. Res. 34, providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources Review"
The Ninth Annual PEP Symposium on the Law & Economics of Privacy & Data Security will take place at the Antonin Scalia Law School on June 10, 2021. The symposium will include a fireside chat with FTC Commissioner, Noah Phillips, and Jon Fasman, the U.S. Digital Editor for The Economist, will discuss his new book We See It All: Liberty and Justice in the Age of Perpetual Surveillance.
12:00 Welcome Remarks
12:02pm 5G: Smart Bases and Military Operations
- Sachin Shetty, Executive Director of the Center for Secure & Intelligent Critical Systems, Old Dominion University
- Patrick Tucker, Technology Editor, Defense One
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Join R Street to discuss its upcoming data security and data privacy white paper focused on the importance of federal privacy legislation. The study argues that a national law is necessary to create a foundation for a robust privacy/security framework in the United States and abroad. State privacy and security laws exist, but 50+ separate laws create a complicated web of different requirements for entities operating nationally. At the international level, cross-border data transfers are increasingly difficult because of America’s inability to find consensus and take legislative action.
In the past year, hackers have infiltrated tens of thousands of organizations worldwide — including US government agencies. And recently, a ransomware attack on a major pipeline caused a gas shortage in the eastern US.
The meeting will feature a report from each of the ACDDE’s working groups on activities and deliberations during the 2019-2021 two-year charter period.
FBI Director Christopher Wray just compared recent ransomware attacks to the Colonial Pipeline and JBS Foods, America’s largest oil pipeline and meat processor respectively and the upheaval to gas and meat prices, to 9/11 terrorism. This falls in the wake of the SolarWinds attack, which came dangerously close to disrupting the US Treasury, one of the most sophisticated hacks to date. These attacks
As Washington debates broadband and connectivity policy, join USTelecom for a conversation on the key infrastructure issues before Congress and hear from broadband providers and technology leaders about strategies to best increase access and affordability to all in America.
“Fiberside” Chat
- Representative Marc Veasey (D-TX) Committee on Energy and Commerce and Co-Chair of the Blue Collar Caucus
- Jonathan Spalter, President & CEO, USTelecom
Panel
Join Silvana Effio (Journalist), Paloma Perez (FCC), and Alejandro Roark (HTTP) for a bilingual conversation about the Emergency Broadband Benefit. Learn more about the program and the outreach resources available for community advocates as a part of the "EBB Para Mi" public awareness campaign and get your questions answered.