The social, economic, and political forces pushing for a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s privacy regime are numerous, and many see 2019 as presenting the best opportunity yet for passage of federal data privacy legislation.
Revelations about how social media platforms use and share consumers’ personal data have raised public concerns about relatively unregulated data markets, while a series of high-profile data breaches have highlighted the complexities and vulnerabilities facing companies that handle large-scale collection and storage of personal data. Meanwhile, lawmakers and other federal officials are taking notice, and data privacy and cyber security issues are moving up everyone’s list of priorities.
