In an interview for Slate’s tech podcast, If Then, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., discusses why he believes the tech industry has received a pass from lawmakers, what are realistic privacy protections, how U.S. cyber capabilities lag behind other world powers, and why educating lawmakers on cybersecurity and data protection is critical to any solution. As vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Warner said the conservation around privacy and data protection has only begun in the last six to nine months and added, “I think America’s failure to lead in a lot of these areas is going to come back and bite us.” Meanwhile, speaking at the 20th anniversary of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to examine the app collection of children’s data and pushed for an expansion of COPPA protections.
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