Debbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva,” talks to Brandon Pugh, Senior Fellow & Counsel at R Street Institute. We discuss his background in the New Jersey State Legislature and National Data Privacy, the Military, the FBI, and elected office, why the US can’t simply implement the GDPR and the complicated State and National issues of Data Privacy, the lack of education about this issue, the need for a new agency to address these concerns, the lack of individual human right to privacy, the need for privacy legislation to have bi-partisan support and ADPPA, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good, California has several privacy advantages and is the standard now, and for the foreseeable future, IoT needs direction and his contribution, EnergyStar as a good but simplistic model for IoT,  and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

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