In recent years, the FTC has increasingly focused on protecting consumers’ access to healthcare, through both its competition and its consumer protection missions. Similarly, the FTC has become a force in federal privacy regulation, second only to the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services. On occasion, the FTC’s priorities in access to health care and health information privacy have come together,… More
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Federalism Rankles National Privacy Debate: California Weighs in on the proposed American Data Protection and Privacy Act
As states have continued to debate and pass new comprehensive privacy statutes – such as those in Virginia and Colorado – a common refrain from business leaders is the need for a comprehensive federal privacy statute that will lessen the need to comply with a patchwork of state laws. Indeed, the absence of serious privacy protections at the federal level – something akin to PIPEDA in Canada or the GDPR in Europe – has long spurred states to act as online data gathering and brokering has grown and advanced well beyond what most extant federal law contemplates. … More