Caitlin Chin
How the 2020 elections will shape the federal privacy debate
The 116th Congress opened with great energy and promise for federal privacy legislation across both houses and parties. By the end of 2019, though, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) each released separate proposals, respectively the draft US Consumer Data Privacy Act (USCDPA) and the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA).
The GDPR and California privacy law as benchmarks for federal privacy legislation
Over the past eighteen months, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have helped shape both the interest and scope of privacy legislation on Capitol Hill. Some of these reasons are legal or practical: a federal privacy law could help the US meet GDPR adequacy requirements for international data transfers, and either supplement or preempt state privacy laws such as the CCPA.