Senate hearing opens the door to individual lawsuits in privacy legislation (Cameron F. Kerry, Brookings)

October 9, 2021

When the general counsel of any publicly-traded company is willing to consider private rights of action—i.e. individual lawsuits to enforce statutory privacy rights—as part of a federal privacy law, that’s news. It’s even bigger news when the company is in a data-driven business. So when Jerry Jones, the Chief Ethics and Legal Officer of the data systems and analytics powerhouse LiveRamp, wrote in a July 2020 op-ed that a federal privacy law “must acknowledge that [a] properly crafted private right-to-action is appropriate and necessary,” I characterized it as a “man-bites-dog” story.

Senate hearing opens the door to individual lawsuits in privacy legislation (brookings.edu)

Marco Emanuele

Marco Emanuele è appassionato di cultura della complessità, cultura della tecnologia e relazioni internazionali. Approfondisce il pensiero di Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. Marco ha insegnato Evoluzione della Democrazia e Totalitarismi, è l’editor di The Global Eye e scrive per The Science of Where Magazine. Marco Emanuele is passionate about complexity culture, technology culture and international relations. He delves into the thought of Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. He has taught Evolution of Democracy and Totalitarianisms. Marco is editor of The Global Eye and writes for The Science of Where Magazine.

Senate hearing opens the door to individual lawsuits in privacy legislation (Cameron F. Kerry, Brookings)

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Strategy and Culture: India’s Continued Relevance in a Complex Multipolar World (Lt Gen (Dr) S.K. Gadeock – Observer Research Foundation)

Ports and Geopolitics: The Case of Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Bay of Bengal (Sohini Bose – Observer Research Foundation)

China’s Infrastructure Buildup Near India’s Northern Borders: The Eight-Year Surge Since Doklam (Rajiv Lathar – Observer Research Foundation)

The Quad’s Calibrated Maritime Security Agenda (Sayantan Haldar – Observer Research Foundation)

A new model for forest finance or just more debt? (Jawad Khalid – Lowy The Interpreter)

Pacific Islands: Without literacy, climate resilience is nigh on impossible (Serena Sasingian – Lowy The Interpreter)

Not every critical mineral is equal – and Australia’s policy should reflect this (Eli Hayes, Darren Lim – Lowy The Interpreter)

The COP30 and COP31 summits must be a display of southern hemisphere stewardship (Izabela Pereira Watts – Lowy The Interpreter)