Rodgers: California Shouldn’t Be Setting US Privacy Standards
California shouldn’t be dictating privacy rules for the rest of the country, said House Commerce Committee ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Friday in response to comments from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on privacy negotiations (see 2209010066). Rodgers called…
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California the “home of Big Tech and the societal ills it has brought.” She noted her bipartisan, bicameral bill, American Data Privacy and Protection Act, gained more than 80% support in a recent poll, and the bill passed the House Commerce Committee 53-2. “Advocacy groups agree” the bill provides the “most robust privacy protections to date in the U.S., even stronger than California,” she said. Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Vice President Daniel Castro said: “No single state should stand in the way of privacy protections for all Americans or try to set the standard for the rest of the country.” The bill is “far from perfect,” but it’s an “important compromise that would empower all Americans with basic consumer privacy rights while balancing consumer protection and innovation,” he said.