Five Key Provisions A Federal Privacy Law Should Include

Before COVID-19 became our collective nemesis, 2020 seemed like it would again be the year Congress would finally put together a bipartisan effort to enact long needed baseline federal privacy legislation.

Once the world turns right side up, disparate points of view should come together to reduce the economic burdens of business and increase individual rights. While individual and commercial interests diverge in many ways, most, if not all stakeholders collectively agree that it is critical to achieve a national resolution to the inadequacy and inconsistency of our data privacy and security laws. However, with many (11 at last count) dueling proposed data privacy laws making the rounds in Washington – it is hard to predict whether a consensus can be achieved and ultimately what would accomplish a reasonably fair result.