Christine Wilson testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to be a Federal Trade Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission on Feb. 14, 2018. Christine Wilson testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to be a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission on Feb. 14, 2018. Photo by Diego Radzinschi

Christine Wilson, a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Washington, D.C., said in a fireside chat hosted by the Regulatory Transparency Project that Congress should continue to work toward a federal privacy bill that preempts state law.

The discussion was moderated by Svetlana Gans, vice president and associate general counsel at the NCTA – The Internet and Television Association. Wilson said the FTC has been calling on Congress to pass federal privacy legislation for years. A law governing how data can be used would have been helpful during the current pandemic as companies and governments work to track location and health care data, she said.

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