Privacy advocates lead multi-stakeholder effort on national privacy and data security legislation

Privacy advocates, emboldened by shifting political dynamics, are helming a multi-stakeholder effort to craft national privacy and data security legislation and are circulating a draft document, with plans to reveal a final version this fall.

“We've been advocating for [privacy legislation] for a long time, but it never seemed really politically feasible,” the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Michelle De Mooy said in an interview with Inside Cybersecurity. “[Lawmakers] are hearing from companies -- small, big, huge, all across the...