Google and Facebook have been lobbying against state privacy legislation for a while now [1][2]. The latest Facebook privacy scandal will give those bills momen

Google and Facebook have been lobbying against state privacy legislation for a while now [1][2]. The latest Facebook privacy scandal will give those bills momentum. Also Marsha Blackburn's privacy bill would have applied to telcos as well as internet companies. You can guess that it went nowhere [3]. The best thing that could happen is for Congress to pass an omnibus privacy bill modeled closely after GDPR. [1] http://fortune.com/2016/06/30/facebook-google-facial-recognition-lawsuits/ http://fortune.com/2016/06/30/facebook-google-facial-recogni... [2] http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-geolocation-privacy-rauner-veto-20170922-story.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-geolocation-pr... [3] https://www.axios.com/blackburn-bill-would-extend-privacy-rules-to-google-facebook-1513302428-9acf6f55-5af0-4e78-9174-f769b9fb9d0b.html https://www.axios.com/blackburn-bill-would-extend-privacy-ru...