Senator Fischer calls for data privacy

Sen Deb Fischer (R-NE) took to the Senate floor to call for action on data privacy, in the wake of a data breach at the shopping giant Target over the holidays.

“This was not just an attack on Target, which has 14 stores in my home state of Nebraska. It was a crime against millions of hardworking citizens,” she said. Sen Fischer said that Congress needed to intervene, and urged the Senate Commerce Committee, on which she sits, to take up the issue. “Our nation’s entire data security system is in desperate need of revamping,” she told the chamber. “That's going to require congressional action.”