Suzanne Smalley reports:
With the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) weeks away from a markup, critics of the bill’s language are ratcheting up pressure on congressional leaders to change the landmark federal comprehensive data privacy legislation.
On Monday, a coalition of business associations and big tech advocacy groups sent House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (D-WA) a letter attacking the bill for failing to provide “a uniform national privacy standard.”
The letter’s authors, who refer to themselves as members of the United for Privacy Coalition, wrote that “full preemption of state law is an essential component of any meaningful federal privacy legislative effort.”
Read more at The Record.
A national law that preempts state laws is only acceptable is that national law is as strong or stronger than the strongest state law. Unfortunately, these coalitions want to preempt strong state laws with a weaker national law.