The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce released, on 18 July 2022, amendments to House Resolution ('HR') 8152, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, in line with its vote on the Act scheduled for 20 July 2022. How does the amended HR 8152 compare to the initial Bill? Some of the key changes include: the requirement that the option to refuse consent must be at least as prominent as the option to accept, and the option to refuse consent must take the same number of steps or fewer as the option to accept; additional requirements for deidentified data, including that contractual obligations be included contractually in all subsequent instances for which the data may be received;