Episode description

In this episode, we sit with the return guest, Jim Dempsey. Jim is the Managing Director of the Cybersecurity Law Center at IAPP, Senior Policy Advisory at Stanford, and Lecturer at UC Berkeley. We will discuss the complex cyber regulatory landscape, where it stands now, and implications for the future based on the recent U.S. Presidential election outcome.

We dove into a lot of topics including:

• The potential impact of the latest U.S. Presidential election, including the fact that while there are parallels between Trump’s first term and Joe Biden’s, there are also key differences. We’re likely to see a deregulatory approach related to commercial industry and consumer tech but much more alignment and firm stances related to cyber and national security.
• The future of efforts around Software Liability and Safe Harbor
• Contrasted differences between the EU’s tech regulatory efforts and the U.S. The U.S. has taken a much more voluntary approach. While Jim is an advocate of regulation and thinks it is needed, he simply cannot get behind the heavy-handed approach of the EU and suspects it will continue to widen the tech gap between the U.S. and the EU.
• What is the potential for regulatory harmonization and the challenges due to the unique aspects of each industry, vertical, data types, and more.

Jim leads the recently formed IAPP Cybersecurity Law Center

He is also the author of the book Cybersecurity Law Fundamentals, Second Edition.