"Push for Internet Privacy Rules Moves to Statehouses Now that Republicans are in charge, the federal government is poised to roll back regulations limiting access to consumers’ online data. States have other ideas... 'More and more, states have taken the position that, if Congress is not willing or able to enact strong privacy laws, their legislatures will no longer sit on their hands,' said Chad Marlow, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union... In the interim, however, lawyers at Edelson PC, a Chicago-based class-action firm that has become notorious among tech companies for its prolific filing of privacy suits, have gone on offense with a lobbying campaign of their own. Firm lawyers have also helped found a new nonprofit group, the Digital Privacy Alliance, as an advocate for privacy legislation in Illinois and elsewhere..." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/...n-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 There is Always Hope.
