For more than a decade, American businesses have been calling on Congress to pick a lane on data privacy: a clear, national framework. Congress failed to pass a workable approach, so states stepped in, and most have taken a constructive approach. But right now, nearly half of Americans still have no comprehensive privacy protections, and small businesses are stuck guessing which laws apply to them. The SECURE Data Act, recently introduced in Congress, would protect all of the public and provide businesses the certainty they’ve been waiting for.

Twenty states representing more than 135 million people have enacted the Consensus Privacy Approach. Governors of both parties, from Greg Abbott (R-TX) to Democrat Tim Walz (D-MI), have signed these bills into law. Across those 20 state legislatures, the Consensus Privacy Approach garnered nearly 1,500 Republican votes and more than 1,100 Democratic votes, proving that this isn’t a partisan policy.