Main Street Privacy Coalition Statement for the Record to Senate Commerce Regarding Consumer Privacy Hearing
Issue Date: September 29, 2021
117th Congress
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
On September 28 NAR singned on to the Main Street Privacy Coalition's statement for the record to the Senate Finance Committee regarding the Committee's hearing entitled “Protecting Consumer Privacy.” The statement expresses the signatories' support for some Committee members’ recent calls for Congress to enact a uniform, preemptive federal privacy bill that sets a national standard for consumer privacy protections. Such a privacy law would aid consumers and businesses alike by ensuring consumer privacy protections are the same regardless of the state in which a consumer resides or a business is located. The increasing patchwork of newly enacted state privacy laws is one of the key reasons a uniform federal privacy law is needed.