Recently, two federal privacy legislations were introduced to the US Senate. the “Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability” (SAFE DATA) Act and the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA). Although there are some differences in the two proposed bills, there is bipartisan support to enact a federal privacy law.
However, the question is still: “Will the legislation pass?”
In this privacyespresso podcast episode, Yugo Nagashima attorney at law at Frost Brown Todd explains to us in more detail the US federal privacy law.