Congress and Trump Agreed They Want a National Privacy Law. It Is Nowhere in Sight. – The New York Times

A rare thing emerged in Washington early this year: agreement. Republicans and Democrats in Congress, as well as the Trump White House, all said they wanted a new federal law to protect people’s online privacy. Numerous tech companies urged them on.

And they had a deadline. With a broad California privacy law set to go into effect early next year, many federal lawmakers and the tech companies wanted to get ahead of it and avoid having state-by-state rules.

But after months of talks, a national privacy law is nowhere in sight.

via Congress and Trump Agreed They Want a National Privacy Law. It Is Nowhere in Sight. – The New York Times.