The Data Privacy ‘To Do List’ for the new US administration
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The US should learn from this. It has after all its own longstanding experience of how state by state commerce rules can at times create difficulties and additional expense. Law-making and enforcement is notoriously especially tricky. Imagine what happens with ddegree of protection and oversight.
This creates excessive regulatory burdens and hampers innovation.
But it is easily solved: recognise that the sensitivity of personal data can be classified not only by its technical category but also by its potency.
The US administration – as the government whose states are creating and debating the most privacy laws, and that oversees some of the largest technology organizations in the world – has an opportunity to address the proliferation of data-hungry organizations, control their appetites, while also appreciating the true variety of personal data beyond simple technical classifications.
To do so would not only earn the simultaneous approval of ‘big tech’ and small innovators, but also legislators, policymakers and privacy professionals who labour under this absurdity every day. And it would lay the foundations for the most modern and up to date privacy framework in the world.
A new administration in the most influential economy in the world triggers news hopes and expectations in every industry. But if major change were to be on the agenda, what would be the most beneficial, transformative, impactful or prudent new data privacy initiatives that the new US administration ought to introduce?
