Will the U.S. Ever Pass a Federal Privacy Law?
The Program on Data and Governance, a program of the Moritz College of Law and the Translational Data Analytics Institute, is proud to present the next event in the Data Points: Ideas on Data, Law and Society Lecture Series:
Will the U.S. Ever Pass a Federal Privacy Law?
featuring Cameron Kerry, Ann R. & Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Center for Technology & Innovation
Thursday, February 24
12 - 1:15 p.m.
With more than 100 countries, including China, having adopted privacy and data protection legislation, the United States has become an outlier. Few people in America have been as involved in efforts to pass comprehensive federal privacy legislation as Cameron Kerry – first, leading the Obama administration’s work on privacy policy and legislation and, more recently, as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution leading a project on privacy legislation. In this lecture, Mr. Kerry will discuss the political obstacles that have prevented enactment so far. He will also explore the substantive issues that shape the debate, including the intersection between privacy and civil rights, the impact of big data and artificial intelligence, and the power of social media.
About the Speaker
Cameron Kerry is a global thought leader on privacy, artificial intelligence, and cross-border challenges in information technology. He is the Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Center for Technology & Innovation. He previously served as general counsel to and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce where he led the Obama Administration’s efforts on privacy policy and legislation. Read More