Security News > 2020 > February > Senator calls for dedicated US data protection agency

The US needs a data protection agency of its own, and Kirsten Gillibrand wants to be the one that makes it happen.

Virtually every other advanced economy has established an independent agency to address data protection challenges, and many other challenges of the digital age.

At the moment, the US doesn't have a single body dedicated to enforcing privacy rules.

Gillibrand wants a federal data agency dedicated to the task with three core missions.

The first would give Americans control over their own data by enforcing data protection rules.

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