A pair of House committees this week said they want to spend additional millions on cybersecurity by injecting funds into CISA and the FTC, as part of the debate
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Senators Raise Security Concerns Over Selling Personal Data
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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is one of the lawmakers raising national security concerns about the collection of personal data.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has sent a letter to Google, Twitter, Verizon, AT&T and online advertising firms and networks raising national security concerns about the selling of citizens personal data, which could end up in the hands of foreign governments.
In the letter, the lawmakers question these firms about the practice of real-time bidding - part of the digital advertising process used to place targeted, personalized ads across websites and other online services.
U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash. U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., has reintroduced a bill that would create a nation-wide data privacy standard to be enforced by the Federal Trade Commission that in its latest version is intended to gather bipartisan support by addressing specific Republican concerns.
DelBene s Information Transparency and Personal Data Control Act, if passed, would replace a patchwork of current state laws and provide an influx of $350 million to the Federal Trade Commission s budget to enforce these proposed regulations. The new DelBene bill marks an interesting start for the relaunch of the effort to advance federal privacy law, says Omer Tene, vice president of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Specifically, while coming from the Democrats side of the aisle, the bill is largely preemptive of state privacy laws and would not allow a private right of action.