The Wall Street Journal: Partisan Rift Threatens Federal Data-Privacy Efforts.

Silicon Valley and GOP lawmakers want a national standard that would override state regulations but are facing pushback from Democrats.

Congress set the stage last year to pass a sweeping consumer data-privacy law in 2019, but prospects for legislation are dimming amid sharpening divides among lawmakers over how far the federal government should go in reining in Big Tech.

Silicon Valley and its Republican allies are pushing for a national standard that would override state regulations—including California’s landmark 2018 law, which broadens the definition of personal information and gives consumers the right to prevent their data from being sold.

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