FTC Commissioner Calls for National Data Breach Law (Corrected)

Congress should enact a national data breach standard as it continues pushing for federal privacy legislation, a Federal Trade Commission official said.

“The best thing we can do for privacy is” pass a national data breach law, FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips said March 14 during a fireside chat at the Brookings Institution.

Multiplicity of laws doesn’t help with privacy compliance, Phillips said.

Congress has felt pressure from the private sector to pass a national privacy law that would preempt 51 varying state and territory standards. Lawmakers from California, which has the nation’s strongest privacy law, say any federal bill shouldn’t ...