What Should Privacy Legislation Do?
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 14 September 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Amid all of the legislative disfunction from Congress, a consensus of sorts is emerging on the need for privacy legislation. Between European pressure, data breaches, and scandals associated with social media manipulation by foreign actors, the idea of some kind of comprehensive privacy legislation has gone mainstream over the last couple of years.
But while people agree over the idea of privacy legislation in theory, the substance of that legislation (that is, what a privacy bill would actually do) is fiercely contested. To explore these competing visions of what we're trying to do when we talk about comprehensive privacy legislation, Benjamin Wittes moderated a live panel discussion in the Falk Auditorium at the Brookings Institution, with David Hoffman, associate general counsel and global privacy officer at Intel Corporation; Sally Greenberg, executive director of the National Consumers League; Cam Kerry, distinguished visiting fellow at Brookings and former general counsel and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce during the Obama administration; and Lydia Parnes, partner at Wilson Sonsini, where she chairs the privacy and cybersecurity practice, and former director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the FTC.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast September 14th, 2019. |
| 0:40.6 | We are five in Brookings' Falk Auditorium, Congress is back and amid all the legislative |
| 0:50.0 | dysfunction, a consensus of sorts is emerging on the need for privacy legislation. |
| 0:57.0 | Between European pressure, data breaches and scandals associated with social media manipulation |
| 1:03.3 | by foreign actors, the idea of some kind of comprehensive privacy legislation has gone |
| 1:09.8 | mainstream in the last couple years and members of Congress are hard at work on the idea. |
| 1:16.8 | While people agree over the idea of privacy legislation in theory, the substance of that |
| 1:23.4 | legislation, that is what a privacy bill would actually do, is fiercely contested and |
| 1:29.7 | that's what we're here to talk about, competing visions of what we're trying to do when we |
| 1:34.8 | talk about comprehensive privacy legislation. |
| 1:38.5 | We have an amazing panel to discuss at all, a panel that represents a number of different |
| 1:44.3 | competing visions of privacy legislation. |
| 1:47.9 | David Hoffman is the Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer at Intel Corporation |
| 1:54.1 | and he teaches cybersecurity and privacy policy at Duke. |
| 1:59.0 | Sally Greenberg is Executive Director, I'm sorry of the National Consumer League, either |
| 2:06.5 | one. |
| 2:07.5 | Cam Carrey, whom you just heard from, who's now actually on the far left there, is a distinguished |
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