House and Senate committee leaders unveiled a discussion draft of their latest effort to create a national data privacy law via the American Privacy Rights Act of 2024, which notably features provisions that would allow people to opt out of the use of their data for creating algorithms that could impact a host of major life decisions.

Lawmakers including Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., along with policy experts issued a call this week at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing for a comprehensive Federal online privacy law as the first step in mitigating risks and harms that artificial intelligence (AI) may pose to the American people.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) administrator said today that the Federal government’s recent historic investment in broadband is this generation’s one chance to connect everyone in the country.

The United States faces a data-privacy crisis and this crisis has created a groundswell of support for new data-protection laws, witnesses told members of the Committee on House Administration on Feb. 16.

MeriTalk caught up with the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Director of the Data and Privacy Project Michelle Richardson, a witness for the committee back in April, to get her take on the Senate’s hearing, what has changed recently in the privacy world, and the prospects for a Federal privacy standard.