States Ready Face-Off Against Congress, ‘Tech Bros’ on Privacy

May 11, 2026, 9:06 AM UTC

State attorneys general are preparing to resist a House Republican privacy proposal, saying it would undercut their ability to police emerging harms tied to artificial intelligence, social media, and data collection.

National Association of Attorneys General President William Tong said in an interview that the attorney general community will “deploy all of our resources to try to protect data privacy laws in our states and to protect data that belongs to citizens in our states and the people in our states.”

Any effort to block states from acting would amount to “a giant, wet kiss to the tech industry and ...

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