Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats
R Street’s Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats team works on data security and data privacy at the federal and state levels, emerging cyber and national security threats, cyber impacts on the private sector and workforce diversity in cybersecurity, among other pressing public policy concerns.
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Data Privacy and Security
Readout from a Congressional Data Privacy and Security Briefing
On Sept. 21, 2022, R Street’s Cyber team, in partnership with Public Knowledge and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, hosted a briefing geared toward Hill staffers on data privacy and security legislation. The briefing focused on the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), which was released by the House Energy and…