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Major Tech Companies Finally Endorse Federal Privacy Regulation

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The major tech companies, scared that states like California might impose actual privacy regulations, have now decided that they can better lobby the federal government for much weaker national legislation that will preempt any stricter state measures.

I’m sure they’ll still do all they can to weaken the California law, but they know they’ll do better at the national level.

Tags: laws, national security policy, privacy

Posted on September 28, 2018 at 1:19 PM14 Comments

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