2019 Outlook: Data Privacy Bill to Move Amid Corporate Push

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2018 | DANIEL R. STOLLER

Congress is likely to embark on an ambitious effort to pass a broad new data privacy law in 2019. Tech companies are pressuring lawmakers to pass a bill to counter the European Union’s strict General Data Protection Regulation and California’s tough new privacy law. That push, combined with a wave of high-profile data breaches involving Marriott International Inc., Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google, and other companies, have lawmakers actively (read article)