Data Privacy Day reminds consumers once a year of the need to protect online data and privacy, but it is the role of Congress legislate workable policy solutions. The Congress should acknowledge that protecting the online privacy of American consumers is a non-partisan issue, and it should be one of its priorities in 2019.
A national privacy framework would be the optimal solution to prevent a growing patchwork of competing and contradictory laws that harms the economy, stifles innovation, and fails to improve privacy outcomes for consumers.
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