With consumer data being collected, stored, shared—and in some cases, misused—at scale by organizations, lawmakers have called for regulatory efforts aimed at protecting data privacy over the years. However, the U.S. still lacks an all-encompassing federal data privacy law.
“People are becoming more privacy literate, and they have more expectations about privacy, but there is no single uniform national privacy law,” said Dena Kozanas, associate general counsel and chief privacy official with MITRE, at a MITRE Labs Grand Challenges Power Hour. “This Congress has made advances in passing a comprehensive privacy law, but more needs to happen, and it needs to happen sooner rather than later.”