cover image: Perspectives from FSF Scholars February 3, 2023 Vol. 18, No. 6

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Perspectives from FSF Scholars February 3, 2023 Vol. 18, No. 6

3 Feb 2023

At the beginning of 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the nation's first state- specific comprehensive data privacy statute, became law – and assumed the role of de facto national privacy approach. [...] On July 20, 2022, a federal privacy bill – the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) – for the first time made it out of committee: on a 53-2 vote, the House Committee on 2 ’s-Heavy-Handed-Approach-to-Protecting-Consumer-Privacy-–-Exhibit-A-in-the-Case-for-Federal-Preemption-102819.pdf . [...] On August 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the adoption of an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on "commercial surveillance and data security." As the Free State Foundation pointed out in responsive comments, this misguided effort, among other things, would do nothing to solve the "patchwork" problem of multiple, inconsistent state approaches – to the contrary, it would a. [...] (The first-of-its-kind California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), which was created by the CPRA, cannot begin to enforce the CPRA until July 1.) As I detailed in a November 2020 Perspectives from FSF Scholars, the CPRA modifies and expands upon the CCPA in a number of ways. [...] The views expressed in this Perspectives do not necessarily reflect the views of others on the staff of the Free State Foundation or those affiliated with it.

Authors

Seth Cooper

Pages
6
Published in
United States of America