Speaking of breakfast, The Breakfast Club is an outstanding 1985 coming of age film — a comedy-drama written by John Hughes about teenagers serving detention. It is called the “breakfast club” because that’s what the high school kids called their 7 am Saturday morning detention. And it is starting to feel like detention for health tech companies, with all the rules and prosecutors ready to pounce. We knew — way back in January — that the significant cybersecurity threats and the Democrats’ squeaker election meant big changes for privacy and health data-related laws. Sure enough, President Biden just nominated law professor Alvaro Bedoya, the founder of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology, to the FTC. Bedoya was the first chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee on privacy, technology, and the law, and is expected to help the FTC take a more aggressive approach to data protection. Just two days after Professor Bedoya’s nomination, Senator Amy Klobuchar, who chairs the Senate antitrust subcommittee, said that Congress is ready to move forward with both antitrust changes and a comprehensive privacy law aimed at tech companies. As Shermer High School Assistant Principal Richard Vernon said (who oversees detention in The Breakfast Club), “Don’t mess with the bull, young man. You’ll get the horns.”
September 16, 2021 | 3 min read
September 16, 2021
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