EFF: EFF Opposes Industry Efforts to Have Congress Roll Back State Privacy Protections
EFF Opposes Industry Efforts to Have Congress Roll Back State Privacy Protections The Senate Commerce Committee is holding a hearing on consumer privacy this week, but consumer privacy groups like EFF were not invited . Instead, only voices from big tech and Internet access corporations will have a seat at the table. In the lead-up to this hearing, two industry groups (the Chamber of Commerce and the Internet Association ) have suggested that Congress wipe the slate clean of state privacy laws in exchange for weaker federal protections . EFF opposes such preemption, and has submitted a letter to the Senate Commerce Committee to detail the dangers it poses to user privacy. Current state laws across the country have already created strong protections for user privacy. Our letter identifies three particularly strong examples from California’s Consumer Privacy Act , Illinois’ Biometric Privacy Act , and Vermont’s Data Broker Act . If Congress enacts weaker federal data privacy legi...