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Cybersecurity was in the spotlight on Capitol Hill today as Christopher Krebs returned to testify to the House Homeland Security Committee on cyber threats. Ahead of the hearing, The Hill spoke with two key committee leaders about their cyber priorities. And Congress is coming increasingly under pressure to produce a federal approach to privacy as Virginia is poised to approve a data privacy bill this week.
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Congress is coming under increasing pressure to create a federal framework for data privacy laws as states forge ahead with their own plans.
Virginia is poised to become the second state to pass a data privacy bill this week, with several other states considering proposals that vary in regulation standards and enforcement practices, potentially creating the kind of privacy patchwork that the tech industry has been warning about for years.
Those states would follow in the footsteps of California, which passed a comprehensive privacy bill in 2018 before expanding it through a ballot measure in November.
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“Just California in and of itself has [had] a major impact because it’s such a large state economy,” said Omer Tene, vice president of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. “Even without other states joining the fray, there was a lot of pressure building in Washington, D.C., to pass federal privacy legislation, if only to put in