A lot has changed in the data privacy space since members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing last December to discuss the urgent need for federal privacy legislation in the United States. The coronavirus pandemic has brought about concerns over remote cyber-security and contact tracing, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield has been invalidated, and the Trump administration’s war against popular social media app TikTok has put the safety of U.S. citizens’ data in the spotlight perhaps more than ever before.
