The U.S. Deregulatory Effect on Global Lawmaking, Policy, and Enforcement

  • Panel
  • Maritime
  • Friday 22.05 — 16:00 - 17:15

Organising Institution

EPIC

United States

EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, DC seeking to protect privacy, freedom of expression, and democratic values in the information age.
  • Academic 2
  • Business 1
  • Policy 3
This panel will review the U.S. efforts to deregulate privacy and technology protections and explore how these efforts are affecting other parts of the world. We will look at trade agreements, subsequent deregulatory efforts, changes in enforcement efforts (particularly against U.S.-based companies), and how some are pushing back. We will also explore how political partnerships internationally are shifting in response to the administration's positions and the increasing rise of U.S. Big Tech influence directly in government.

Questions to be answered

  1. How can the U.S. be deregulating when they do not have a federal privacy law to begin with?
  2. Is EU simplification a reflection of the U.S. deregulatory approach?
  3. How do trade agreements, tariffs, and other factors play in to deregulatory decision making?
  4. Are there countries that are holding firm or responding with MORE regulation and enforcement to this U.S. approach?

Moderator

Maria Villegas Bravo

EPIC - United States

Maria Villegas Bravo is an EPIC Counsel focusing on international privacy law and surveillance oversight. She is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, where she served as a law clerk in the First Amendment Clinic, the president of the Tech and Privacy Law Society, a research assistant to Neil Richards, and a member of the Global Studies Law Review. While in law school, she interned at AT&T, the Texas Office of the Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division, and the FTC Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. While at UT, she was an Archer Fellow and interned at the House Judiciary Committee.

Speaker

Calli Schroeder

EPIC - United States

Calli Schroeder is Senior Counsel, Director of the AI and Human Rights Program, and Global Privacy Project lead at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Calli leads EPIC’s program on international privacy. In this work, she tracks and contributes comments to international policy developments to push them toward stronger privacy and human rights protections, represents EPIC in international coalitions and fora, and fosters relationships between global privacy experts and EPIC. Calli also acts as the Director of EPIC’s AI and Human Rights Program, developing EPIC’s work on AI policy and strategy. She highlights responsible, transparent, and privacy-protective design, development, and application of AI systems and provides perspective on AI risks and harms to lawmakers, enforcement bodies, and the public.

Speaker

Tomasso Falcheta

Privacy International - International

Tomaso leads Privacy International’s global policy engagement He develops the organisation’s international advocacy with the UN, the EU, and other relevant intergovernmental bodies. Previously he worked for Child Soldiers International and for Amnesty International’s (AI) International Secretariat, in the International Law and Policy Program, where he was legal and policy advisor. His main responsibilities included providing advice on international human rights and humanitarian law, drafting intervention before human rights courts and bodies and representing the organization in meetings of UN human rights law experts. Tomaso is an Italian lawyer and has a Law Degree from the Law College in Ferrara (Italy).