Info Law Group Senior Counsel Quoted on Dept of Commerce Privacy Greenpaper

Senior Counsel, Richard Santalesa, was quoted yesterday in a DataGuidance news story about the Department of Commerce's December 2010 report entitled, 'Commercial Data Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy: A Dynamic Policy Framework' (a/k/a Greenpaper, report available here). 

The DataGuidance story, USA: DoC report recommends federal breach notification law and review of ECPA, available here, highlights the Greenpaper's recommendation for review and possible amendment of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the Greenpaper's relation to the recently released FTC privacy framework - Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change.

To discuss the implications of the Department of Commerce's Greenpaper or the FTC's privacy framework and how either may impact your data privacy regimes feel free to contact Santalesa or any other Info Law Group attorney.