A New Congress Brings New Tech Priorities and Increased Oversight

From: Nextgov

By Jack Corrigan and Joseph Marks

The midterm elections also left a big cyber vacancy on the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

Democrats’ House takeover and shifts in the Senate landscape are bound to shift Congress’s tech and cyber policies. Here’s a rundown.

Pushing on Privacy

For starters, you can expect the debate over online privacy to grow louder in the coming months, according to Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif. Khanna listed personal privacy and data security among the party’s top tech priorities at a Washington Post event on Thursday. Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., separately indicated privacy could become a key issue for the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the upcoming congressional term.

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