The Biden administration should push for a federal data protection law
In the United States, companies are largely not required by law to protect your personal data. There are some exceptions—certain specific types of data are regulated (health information, for instance, or data about children under 13), and the California Consumer Privacy Act, which went into effect this year, imposes some security and privacy requirements on companies collecting information about California residents.
But those piecemeal solutions do not come close to adequately addressing the huge gap at the heart of U.S. civilian cybersecurity policy: the absence of a federal data protection law. However, this could be a rare opportunity for bipartisan cooperation in Congress.
Full article: The Biden administration should push for a federal data protection law.
