1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Watching the Watchers: A Comparison of Privacy Bills in the 116th Congress April 3, 2020 As a growing number of states enact or consider consumer privacy protection measures, many in Congress are pushing
2、for a comprehensive federal consumer privacy framework. In 2019, both the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Energy and Commerce Committees Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce held hearings on protecting consumer privacy. And in the last few months,
3、Members of Congress have introduced four consumer privacy bills and circulated discussion drafts of two additional proposals: H.R. 4978, the Online Privacy Act of 2019, introduced by Representatives Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren on November 5, 2019; The United States Consumer Data Privacy Act of 2019 (
4、“USCDPA Draft”), a discussion draft circulated by Senator Roger Wicker on November 27, 2019; S. 2968, the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act, introduced by Senators Maria Cantwell, Brian Schatz, Amy Klobuchar, and Ed Markey on December 3, 2019; An untitled December 18, 2019, discussion draft (“E&C D
