With an increased eye on ransomware attacks, like the one that shut down gasoline for much of the southeastern U.S. earlier this summer, the federal government recently provided a one-stop-shop for aiding people and companies in preventing “ransomware attacks that can severely impact business processes and leave organizations without the data they need to operate and deliver mission-critical services.”
In July, the Insights Association lamented more new state privacy laws while issuing helpful CCPA compliance information for members; welcomed an important data security protection in Connecticut; endorsed a new nominee to run the Census Bureau; and continued to advance a fix to the 2020 California law requiring a minimum wage for research subjects.
The GOP leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee and House Energy & Commerce Committee recently called upon the Biden Administration “to work with Congress to enact a nationwide consumer data privacy law.”