As the new administration continues to set its agenda for the next four years, those who work in the personal information data security field are playing wait and see with the direction future regulatory oversight will take. On the one hand, President Donald Trump repeatedly announced during his campaign that when elected he would substantially abolish business-restricting regulations. And while President-elect, he initially dismissed intelligence reports alleging cyber attacks committed on behalf of the Russian government, thereby permitting an inference that he did not see cyber crime being as pressing an issue as past administrations.
On the other hand, he has seemed more willing recently to acknowledge that nation states could have participated in hacking critical information pertaining to the November election. And despite his frequent discourse about reversing the trend of greater regulation, he made no reference to abolishing rules that protect information privacy.
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