Public misconceptions, policy roadblocks fuel federal privacy law stalemate

Axios reports on how the perceptions of privacy among U.S. residents are hampering U.S. Congress' work on federal privacy legislation. Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology Executive Director Emily Tucker said privacy correlates "the preservation of individual sovereignty over one's immediate personal space" rather than digital privacy for many U.S. citizens. Other common hurdles raised are the undesirable rise in compliance costs companies face with a potential federal law and how data privacy can be easily supplanted among Congress' priorities.