The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce has introduced a bi-partisan discussion framework on privacy.
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Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rand Paul (R-KY) have introduced the Protecting Data at the Border Act .
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In the wake of the Colonial Pipeline attack, President Biden has signed the Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity.
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On February 26, 2021 in the United States District Court Northern District of California, the Court found that Facebook was ordered to pay $650 million. This issue derived from the underlying lawsuit alleging whether the collection of an individual's biometric data in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act is sufficient to establish Article III standing. As a result of this dispute, the company’s automatic facial recognition tagging features are now an opt-in feature instead of being an opt-out choice.
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