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‘There’s going to be a fight here to weaken it’: Inside the lobbying war over California’s landmark privacy law

Posted on February 10, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Tony Romm reports:

A landmark law adopted in California last year to rein in the data-collection practices of Facebook, Google and other tech giants has touched off a lobbying blitz that could water it down, potentially undermining new protections that might apply to Internet users across the country.

The fight between regulation-wary businesses and privacy watchdogs centers on the Golden State’s first-in-the-nation online privacy rules, known as the California Consumer Privacy Act.

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