“So what’s going to happen is California is going to supplant Congress,<br />and it’s going to be augmented by states like Illinois, Minnesota and even Texas in efforts to protect consumer privacy.”<br />In Illinois, the “right to know” legislation recently cleared the Senate Judiciary<br />Committee, paving the way for a full vote sometime in the next few weeks.<br />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,<br />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.<br />Push for Internet Privacy Rules Moves to Statehouses -<br />By CONOR DOUGHERTYMARCH 26, 2017<br />Now that Republicans are in charge, the federal government is poised to roll back regulations limiting access to consumers’ online data.<br />“It’s important because the Trump administration is doing so much to roll back privacy rights,<br />so there is going to be a huge shift to state lawmakers and state attorneys general.”<br />Cecilia Kang contributed reporting, and Doris Burke contributed research.
