Unpacking the SECURE Data Act

About this episode

The episode discusses the SECURE Data Act and its implications for data privacy in the U.S. with guest Eric Null.

With artificial intelligence systems increasingly deployed by companies and governments to hoover up every possible unit of data and to make consequential decisions about people's employment, benefits, credit, education, housing, and health care, the United States still has no baseline federal privacy law. This week, House Republicans put a new bill on the table called the SECURE Data Act. Today’s guest is Eric Null , director of the Privacy & Data Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology. He says the bill has significant structural weaknesses even as it seeks to preempt stronger state protections that are already in place.

People in this episode

Guest: Eric Null

Topics covered

• data privacy
• SECURE Data Act
• artificial intelligence
• federal law
• state protections

Keywords

• data privacy
• SECURE Data Act
• Eric Null
• artificial intelligence
• federal privacy law
• state protections
• data collection

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Center for Democracy & Technology, House Republicans

Books & works: SECURE Data Act

Places: United States

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