The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (the "Chamber") recently
hosted a data privacy summit, "#DataDoneRight", which
brought together a group of industry professionals, government
stakeholders, and privacy thought leaders to talk about data
privacy.
The Chamber, which has proposed federal privacy
legislation, engaged a wide variety of speakers, covering
multiple viewpoints, to demonstrate the need for a comprehensive
and fair federal privacy law:
- Alastair Mactaggart, the primary
architect of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), explained
his efforts to pass that law, including his negotiations with
California legislators. Mactaggart expects that the CCPA would be a
floor for any federal privacy law both because he claims consumers
demand it and because the significant numbers of federal
legislators from California (who comprise 20 percent of the House
Democratic caucus alone) would not approve of any law that undercut
the consumer rights granted by the CCPA.
