Industry lawyers push back on NIST privacy framework, cite upcoming ISO standard

Privacy lawyers questioned how an upcoming international privacy standard would be integrated into a framework being developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, while arguing the draft NIST document is getting out ahead of legal requirements.

“I'm going to push back on that,” Harriett Pearson, a partner at law firm Hogan Lovells, offered in response to NIST's Naomi Lefkovitz saying the ISO standard would fit in “perfectly” because the draft privacy framework lays out a process for managing...