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Daily Dashboard | Will US states pick up the slack left by Trump-era policy reversals? Related reading: Evolving privacy law 'exciting' for IAPP Westin Scholar

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Recently, attorneys general from 47 states and the District of Columbia announced a settlement with Target regarding its massive 2013 data breach. At $18.5 million, it's the largest attorney general settlement on record. While the fine might be the highest ever, the collaboration isn't anything new. State attorneys general have been collaborating for many years. But after eight years of a Democratic administration that made privacy part of its agenda, many are looking to the role states might play in protecting consumer privacy if the Trump administration chooses either not to prioritize it, or, as we saw with the reversal of the Obama-era’s FCC privacy rules, roll former priorities back. "I think the way we look at it is there's a universe of privacy and data security work to be done, and just because the federal government may scale back on what they're doing, doesn't mean the work to protect consumers scales back," Connecticut Assistant Attorney General Matt Fitzsimmons, CIPP/US, said. Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, reports. 
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