Patchwork Penalty: The Hidden Toll of State Privacy Laws
Event Summary
A number of states, including California, Virginia, and Colorado, have recently passed data-protection laws that will impact businesses across the United States. In the absence of congressional action, many more states are likely to follow suit in the coming years, creating a patchwork of competing and potentially contradictory data-protection regulations that will confuse consumers, inflict high compliance costs on organizations, and impose unnecessary constraints on the digital economy.
ITIF hosted a discussion of a new study on the economic impact that a patchwork of state privacy laws will likely have on U.S. businesses, the key criteria Congress should consider in future federal data-privacy legislation to minimize these costs, and the opportunity for the United States to embrace an innovation-friendly data protection framework that protects consumers while streamlining regulation.
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Speakers
![Carl](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/03hnmfyj/production/4b1853fd7ab2fdc0e82bb0d743ca3306482df452-107x147.jpg?rect=0,2,107,145&w=64&h=87&or=0&q=100&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Jennifer](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/03hnmfyj/production/949e80f2d6120bf06237f9d56c43665a84d0bcba-2329x3500.jpg?rect=187,495,1353,1839&w=64&h=87&or=0&q=100&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Caleb](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/03hnmfyj/production/f80d2d1c8d70e4846fdee10dea3e0602202cfaeb-107x147.jpg?rect=0,2,107,145&w=64&h=87&or=0&q=100&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Daniel](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/03hnmfyj/production/367420b213d4a748bc48a4662e5ee58c6aa3904a-1824x2168.jpg?rect=187,66,1353,1839&w=64&h=87&or=0&q=100&fit=clip&auto=format)