On the heels of the formation of the Home Privateness Working Group, Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), Chairman of the Home Committee on Power and Commerce, and Congressman John Joyce, M.D. (PA-13), Vice Chairman of the Home Committee on Power and Commerce, issued a Request for Info (RFI) concerning a Federal Privateness Legislation.
“The problem of offering clear digital protections for People is compounded by the quick tempo of technological development and the advanced net of state and federal knowledge privateness and safety legal guidelines, which in some circumstances create conflicting authorized necessities,” reads the request.
Guthrie and Joyce are accepting enter till April 7, 2025. They’re particularly asking questions concerning:
- Roles of gamers within the knowledge safety house (controllers, processor).
- Ought to there be totally different therapy for corporations of various sizes.
- Scope of the privateness legal guidelines – together with the definition of “private info.”
- Scope/content material of privateness disclosures.
- Privateness rights of people.
- Particular therapy for delicate info.
- Any insights realized from current complete knowledge privateness and safety legal guidelines that could be related to the working group’s efforts.
- The diploma to which U.S. privateness protections are fragmented on the state-level and the prices related to fragmentation.
- What’s the applicable diploma of preemption {that a} federal complete knowledge privateness and safety regulation ought to undertake?
- Addressing info safety.
- Addressing State degree AI frameworks and automatic choice making.
- Who ought to implement the regulation?
- If the FTC enforces, what assets and authorities must be made accessible to it.
