House Republicans on Wednesday released highly anticipated legislation that would establish a national data privacy standard and override state laws, aiming to fulfill longtime demands from industry and advocacy officials for a single framework.
The new bill, if passed by Congress, would create consumer privacy rights at the national level for the first time. The US trails the rest of the world in data privacy protections, and states such as Virginia, Kentucky and Texas have moved to fill the regulatory gap by enacting new laws in recent years to give consumers greater control over their personal information online.
The legislation, ...