In the last week, two federal privacy bills have been proposed in the Senate — one from the Democrats, the other from the Republicans — paving the way for debate and discussion on a potential bipartisan bill. The conversation continues on Capitol Hill Wednesday with a full Commerce Committee hearing to discuss federal privacy legislation (stay tuned for the IAPP's coverage of the hearing in Thursday's Daily Dashboard). In a post for The Brookings Institution, Cameron Kerry writes that the emerging bills mean legislators are finally "catching up and are engaged in a process of classic legislating that is rare in these times." Relatedly, ad industry group Privacy for America has released a 41-page framework detailing what it would prefer to see in a national law, MediaPost reports. 
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