Recently fired FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter should testify at Wednesday’s subcommittee hearing, House Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., said Monday.
President Donald Trump should work with Congress to extend the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok and potentially allow the company to continue operating in the U.S., Democratic senators wrote the White House on Monday.
The Privacy Act needs to be updated to reflect modern technological issues, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said Wednesday, backing a legislative inquiry from Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., into the 1974 federal law (see 2503180019).
Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., is gathering public input on a potential legislative update for the 1974 Privacy Act in response to Elon Musk’s data-collection activities at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) oppose the Trump administration’s recent attempts to overturn Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) protections for users of payment apps, putting their privacy at risk, EPIC said Monday.
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on advancing Mark Meador’s FTC nomination on March 12, Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, announced Wednesday (see 2503030044). Michael Kratsios’ nomination for Office of Science and Technology Policy director is also on the agenda.
The Senate Banking Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to advance Consumer Financial Protection Bureau nominee Jonathan McKernan to the Senate floor (see 2503040058).
A coalition of 21 Republican attorneys general in a letter Thursday called on Congress to ban Chinese-based AI platform DeepSeek by passing the No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act (HR-1121), citing national security risks.
A deepfake porn bill gaining congressional momentum poses encryption-related privacy issues, policy groups said Wednesday.
Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., on Tuesday reintroduced legislation that would update the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).