Silicon Valley trade groups are consistent in their hope that a federal data privacy law will preempt the growing thicket of state regulations, including one that mirrors onerous new European rules.
Among their reasons for hoping for national regulation is the difficulty of conducting Internet-based commerce, which inherently spans state boundaries, when the rules for buyer and seller are different.
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