Data Privacy Legislation In The U.S. – Where We Stand Right Now

Last year saw continued movement toward the implementation of federal data privacy legislation. In July, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) became the first online data privacy bill to pass committee as the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved it with near unanimous support. The bill approached data privacy from the perspective of data minimization, permitting those companies to which the law would apply to collect data only for specified purposes (one of the specified purposes is for targeted advertising, which could lead to opposition down the road as many data privacy advocates prefer to have this practice banned outright).

FEDERAL STATUS OF DATA PRIVACY LEGISLATION