Consumer Advocates Demand House Vote on Bipartisan Privacy Bill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., should hold a floor vote on the House Commerce Committee’s bipartisan privacy legislation, some 50 public interest groups wrote the speaker Thursday. The group includes Public Knowledge, Access Now, Center for Democracy & Technology, Center for Digital Democracy, Communications Workers of America, Open MIC, Fairplay and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The letter notes the American Data Privacy and Protection Act has “limited preemption” of state privacy laws that cover the same issues as the ADPPA: It doesn’t “preempt state civil rights laws, consumer protection laws of general applicability, or laws related to student or employee privacy, health privacy, financial privacy, social security numbers, facial recognition, electronic surveillance, encryption, or several other categories.”