Sen. Wicker praises House action on privacy bill, urges Senate panel to hold hearing

Senate Commerce ranking member Roger Wicker (R-MS) is urging Commerce Chairwoman Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to set a hearing on privacy legislation, after a House panel took the first step last week toward reporting a bipartisan privacy bill designed to end a decade of deadlock over the issue.

“I would welcome a hearing on the American Data Privacy and Protection Act in the Senate Commerce Committee,” Wicker said in a statement provided Monday to Inside Cybersecurity. “A full legislative hearing would...