Last year, the public got a glimpse into the future of US privacy legislation with the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). The bipartisan act would have created a robust nationwide regulation for protecting individual data privacy.
Although the act unfortunately didn’t become a law, it does give us insights into what we might expect from federal lawmakers on the topic of data privacy in upcoming sessions of Congress. In this post, we’ll unravel the proposed legislation, explaining what it would have covered, how it compares to the EU’s laws, and what the future of US data privacy regulations might look like.
