On October 20, 2015, the House of Representatives moved to the Senate a bipartisan bill, the Judicial Redress Act of 2015, which would extend some of the protections of the Privacy Act of 1974 to citizens of certain foreign countries so that they could pursue their privacy rights in US courts. More information on the rights set […]
On April 28, 2015, several major tech companies (e.g., Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo) together with some national associations (e.g., Transatlantic Business Council and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) sent a letter to Chttp://www.technethics.com/ongress urging it to support the bipartisan Judicial Redress Act of 2015, H.R. 1428, which would extend Privacy Act remedies to citizens of […]
Tags: DATA PROTECTION, INTERNATIONAL DATA PROTECTION, US PRIVACY
On April 22 and 23, 2015, the House of Representatives passed, with strong bipartisan support, two bills on cybersecurity, the “Protecting Cyber Networks Act” (H.R. 1560) and the “National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015” (H.R. 1731). H.R. 1560 was passed by the House on April 22, 2015, with 307-116 votes. According to the House’s […]
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On March 18, 2015, the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade of the US House of Representatives will review a recently proposed draft legislation that aims to tackle data security threats at a national level. The “Data Security and Breach Notification Act,” is a bipartisan bill authored by full committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) […]
Tags: DATA PROTECTION, US PRIVACY