In short: Yes, had Facebook’s transgressions happened in the GDPR-era, said U.K. ICO Elizabeth Denham, “the fine would have been much larger. But we’re limited by what was possible with the old Data Protection Act.” However, the 500,000-pound fine the ICO issued to Facebook today, the maximum allow...

The United States Senate Commerce Committee, as part of a series of public hearings it is holding on privacy, heard the call for a new national data protection and privacy law from industry a few weeks ago. It heard it again more recently from privacy advocates. The conversation now is about the sh...