Moran: Privacy Group’s Goal Is to Negotiate Legislative Differences in Next Month
The Senate Commerce Committee bipartisan working group’s goal is to negotiate privacy legislation differences “in the next month,” Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., told us Tuesday. The group includes Moran, Commerce Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Sen.…
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Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. Staffers for the lawmakers are exploring privacy principles and specific legislative provisions, Moran, Schatz and Blumenthal told us. “There is no deadline, but I am encouraging, pushing that this be addressed, that we get to the point at which the senators can sit down and try to resolve any additional, remaining differences in the next month,” Moran said. The group is in more advanced discussions than “principles,” Wicker told us. It hasn’t reached the point where draft legislation is circulating, Blumenthal told us. Staff is weighing principles and “specific provisions,” he said, noting draft legislation can’t be written with principles. “There’s no deadline. We want to get it right,” Blumenthal told us. “We have to make it bipartisan. We have to get the Republican leadership.” Wicker was asked whether he has a privacy hearing in mind for April. “I don’t know that we’ve scheduled that, but we’re going to have lots more witnesses on data privacy,” he told reporters. The committee received criticism from privacy and consumer groups when an initial list for its first privacy hearing of the year featured an all-industry panel (see 1902220041).