Leading industry lawyer identifies controversial gap around enforcement in NIST's privacy framework draft

ATLANTA -- A key figure here at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's second workshop to shape its privacy risk management framework is offering a significant restructuring of the current discussion draft to more effectively inform companies' budgetary decisions based on the regulatory landscape.

“How to fit enforcement into the privacy framework is going to be very important,” said Peter Swire, a distinguished professor of law and ethics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and senior counsel at Alston...