Abstract
The recently introduced American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) represents the latest attempt to pass a comprehensive federal privacy law in the US that would govern privacy generally across the country. The draft bill proposes novel compromises on controversial topics such as federal preemption and rights of private action, which need refinement and will likely be changed in the legislative process. The attempt to cover not-for-profit entities without accounting for their different purposes seems ill conceived and raises constitutional concerns. This paper examines the APRA in its constitutional, historical, and policy contexts. Click here to read the full paper, which was originally published in Vol.6.4 of the Journal of Data Protection & Privacy.
