A wide-ranging group of tech and other companies is asking that a prominent data privacy bill be altered to fully preempt state privacy laws.
United for Privacy, a coalition of trade groups that also represent retailers, advertising agencies and financial services companies, on Monday wrote to House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and the panel’s ranking member, Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., requesting changes to their draft bill.
The committee’s panel on Innovation, Data, and Commerce last month advanced by voice vote the discussion draft that would establish a federal data privacy standard, restrict the activities of data brokers, preempt some state privacy laws, prohibit targeted advertising to children and require parental consent for kids accessing certain platforms.
