TDAI's Program on Data and Governance in Moritz College will host a lecture entitled "Will the U.S. Ever Pass a Federal Privacy Law?" with Cameron Kerry, the Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution Center for Technology Innovation.
Kerry has served as general counsel and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as an adviser to then President Barack Obama. In addition to his Brookings affiliation, he is a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He also served as senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.
Description of the talk: With more than 100 countries, including China, having adopted privacy and data protection legislation, the United States has become an outlier. Few people in America have been as involved in efforts to pass comprehensive federal privacy legislation as Cameron Kerry – first, leading the Obama administration’s work on privacy policy and legislation and, more recently, as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution leading a project on privacy legislation. In this lecture, Mr. Kerry will discuss the political obstacles that have prevented enactment so far. He will also explore the substantive issues that shape the debate, including the intersection between privacy and civil rights, the impact of big data and artificial intelligence, and the power of social media.
