Future of Privacy Forum argues bipartisan privacy bill could improve corporate accountability for data security outcomes

Requirements for organizations to appoint privacy and security officers in the recently unveiled Cantwell-Rodgers data privacy bill could change the way the private sector approaches data security management from the executive level, according to two policy analysts from the Future of Privacy Forum.

“Knowing that as a company scales up, they have to have at least one [officer] in place, and then will be required to have additional expertise as they get larger and have more impact, is positive movement,”...