With the passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act but no
clear federal consumer privacy law on the imminent horizon, state
Attorneys General (AGs) continue to investigate and analyze how
best to protect their consumers. To further that goal, the National
Association of Attorneys General hosted a panel entitled Emerging
Issues in the Data Economy at its Winter Meeting in Washington,
D.C. The panel was convened to discuss the role AGs can and should
play in data privacy in an ever-changing economy. Doug Peterson,
Nebraska's AG, moderated the panel, which included Maneesha
Mithal, Associate Director, Division of Privacy and Identity
Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Ryan Krieger,
Assistant AG, Public Protection Division of the Vermont Attorney
General's Office, and Daniel Castro, Vice President of the
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
