Microsoft can’t get privacy bill passed in its home state. Is trying elsewhere (opens in new tab)

The EFF has a good breakdown of their concerns with Washington Privacy Act: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/tech-lobbyists-are-pus...

ACLU WA openly opposed the bill: https://www.aclu-wa.org/docs/letter-community-organizations-...

It seems the issue lies in tech companies preempting privacy legislation with proposals that are largely toothless. While the EFF sought to add amendments that would make the bill more robust, ACLU WA sought to quash it all together which makes me wonder what the reasoning was for not attempting to amend the bill.

I'm hopeful here in Illinois we'll support this. We already have BIPA (Biometric Information Privacy Act) which has already been used against tech companies.

As it is, CCPA is pushing essentially companies to start treating the US like it is also under GDPR and the like. A complicated privacy landscape in the United States is fine: It will force companies to collect as little data as humanly possible for fear of running across one state or anothers' privacy laws.