Transcription of Data Protection Law: An Overview
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data Protection Law: An Overview March 25, 2019 Congressional Research Service R45631 Congressional Research Service SUMMARY data Protection Law: An Overview Recent high-profile data breaches and other concerns about how third parties protect the privacy of individuals in the digital age have raised national concerns over legal protections of Americans electronic data . Intentional intrusions into government and private computer networks and inadequate corporate privacy and cybersecurity practices have exposed the personal information of millions of Americans to unwanted recipients. At the same time, internet connectivity has increased and varied in form in recent years. Americans now transmit their personal data on the internet at an exponentially higher rate than in the past, and their data are collected, cultivated, and maintained by a growing number of both consumer facing and behind the scenes actors such as data brokers. As a consequence, the privacy, cybersecurity and Protection of personal data have emerged as a major issue for congressional consideration.
2018/03/suspending-cambridge-analytica/ (reporting that the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica exposed private user information by violating Facebook’s privacy platform). In addition to violations of privacy protocols, Facebook
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