The IAPP recently reviewed a set of proposals from U.S. lawmakers for a new piece of federal privacy legislation, as well as comments submitted to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in response to their proposed framework to protect data privacy. The purpose was to identify areas of consensus, as well as controversy, regarding what a U.S. federal privacy law would look like. But that piece left a key question unanswered: Which of these provisions, if enacted, would be the most effective at enhancing privacy and data protection? To help answer this question, IAPP Senior Westin Research Fellow Müge Fazlioglu, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, examines specific comments submitted to the NTIA by the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Center for Democracy & Technology, Information Accountability Foundation, and a group of privacy law scholars affiliated with various universities, in this post for Privacy Perspectives. 
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