Tech industry groups are watering down attempts at privacy regulation, one state at a time

By: Todd Feathers and Alfred Ng In late 2019, Utah state senator Kirk Cullimore got a phone call from one of his constituents, a lawyer who represented technology companies in California. “He said, ‘I think the businesses I represent would like to have some bright lines about what they can do in Utah,’ ” Cullimore told The Markup. At the time, tech companies in California were struggling with how they could comply with a new state law that gave individual Californians control over the data that corporations routinely gather and sell about their online activities. The lawyer, whom Cullimore and his…This story continues at The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/tech-industry-groups-are-watering-down-attempts-at-privacy-regulation-one-state-at-a-time