WHAT: The US Chamber of Commerce opposes California’s Consumer Privacy Act and wants the federal government to preempt state law
WHAT legislative specifics do they want?
- Preemption of state data protection laws
- Require concrete harm before a lawsuit
- Preclude all class action lawsuits
WHY?
- avoid a disparate patchwork of data privacy rules
- without preemption, companies have to choose the strictist law to comply with and that is California’s consumer privacy act
MARTECH | US Chamber of Commerce calls on feds to preempt CA privacy law