Sen Moran Introduces Consumer Data Privacy and Security Act

Senate Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Jerry Moran (R-KS) introduced the Consumer Data Privacy and Security Act to strengthen the laws that govern consumers’ personal data and create clear standards and regulations for American businesses that collect, process and use consumers’ personally identifiable data. The Consumer Data Privacy and Security Act would:

• establish a clear federal standard for data privacy protection, giving businesses a uniform standard rather than a patchwork of confusing state laws.
• provide consumers with control over their own data to access, correct and erase their personal data.
• require businesses that collect and process a significant amount of personal data to take extra precautionary steps to protect and responsibly process that data.
• prohibit companies from collecting data without consumers’ consent with limited and specific exceptions.
• require businesses to develop and implement robust data security programs to protect personal data from unauthorized access and disclosure.
• equip the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general with authority to uniformly enforce federal consumer privacy protections while providing the FTC the resources necessary to carry out those authorities.