In a Los Angeles Lawyer article titled “Journey to a Federal Privacy Law,” Jordan Fischer, assistant teaching professor at Kline and managing partner of XPAN Law Group, calls for the creation of a comprehensive federal privacy law in the United States to protect individuals’ data privacy.

She describes the shortcomings of existing federal and state regulations, the difficulty of showing “actual harm” from data breaches in courts and the “take-it-or-leave-it” approach of self-regulating companies, before outlining potential steps to a federal privacy regulation that balances business interests and consumer protections.

“Attempting to define privacy within the United States is a key first step in creating a workable solution to U.S. participation in global privacy practices,” she writes.

Professor Fischer focuses her research on data privacy and cybersecurity, bringing an interdisciplinary approach to her teaching of EU Data Privacy Law and European Union Law at Kline. At XPAN, she focuses her practice on international data privacy and cybersecurity and cross-border data management, with an emphasis in European Union data privacy regulations and the General Data Protection Regulation.