Published: May 2022Click To View (PDF)

This white paper examines the progress made in Congress toward bipartisan agreement on privacy rights over the current legislative session, analyzing the 18 bipartisan federal privacy bills introduced in the 117th Congress.

As a complement to the IAPP “US Federal Privacy Legislation Tracker,” which includes privacy-related bills within the current Congress, the focus in this analysis is limited to bills that have received support from both Democrats and Republicans. The aim is to understand why certain pieces of privacy legislation have broader support among lawmakers and how they differ from proposals that have received support from only one party.