“So what’s going to happen is California is going to supplant Congress,
and it’s going to be augmented by states like Illinois, Minnesota and even Texas in efforts to protect consumer privacy.”
In Illinois, the “right to know” legislation recently cleared the Senate Judiciary
Committee, paving the way for a full vote sometime in the next few weeks.
Should they be passed into law, these rules could end up guiding the rights of consumers far beyond Illinois — because they would provide a model for other states,
and because it would be difficult for technology companies with hundreds of millions of users to create a patchwork of state- and country-specific features to localize their effects.
Push for Internet Privacy Rules Moves to Statehouses -
By CONOR DOUGHERTYMARCH 26, 2017
Now that Republicans are in charge, the federal government is poised to roll back regulations limiting access to consumers’ online data.
“It’s important because the Trump administration is doing so much to roll back privacy rights,
so there is going to be a huge shift to state lawmakers and state attorneys general.”
Cecilia Kang contributed reporting, and Doris Burke contributed research.