Senate Commerce Chair Wicker presses for privacy law as he touts ‘Big Data’ role in COVID-19 crisis

Senate Commerce Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) sees the COVID-19 crisis as a huge moment for demonstrating the widespread benefits of “Big Data” analytics – and also as yet another chance to shine a light on the need for a federal privacy standard.

Countless incidents and events in recent years – Equifax, OPM, the proliferation of state laws -- have been touted as the long-awaited lever to actually move a national data privacy and security measure through Congress.

But the lever...