Author: Courtney Beesch
Courtney Beesch is a first semester graduate student in the data analytics and visualization program at the Pratt Institute. She currently works full-time at The Washington Post as an audience editor and is soon moving to a new role on the design team. She moved from Washington, D.C., where she's lived for the past five-years, in January. Alongside her professional work and graduate studies, she also ran the 3K and 5K for Pratt's Track and Field team for the outdoor season.
The United States has not created any meaningful legislation to protect American’s data privacy or usage since the 1970s, despite a bipartisan agreement of the need for such…