He was not wrong. Microsoft has been "activists" that have been actively lobbying multitudes of states for years pushing for consumer privacy protection laws th

He was not wrong. Microsoft has been "activists" that have been actively lobbying multitudes of states for years pushing for consumer privacy protection laws that really do meaningfully improve peoples privacy. Of course, that's only technically correct. The bills they have been pushing for are terrible, they improve consumer privacy status quo in the worst way possible, by taking one step forward and building a wall that prevents any further steps. The reason for this is mostly because they hate the idea a GDPR-esq law in the US and hope if they pass enough shitty laws in the states they can forestall federal legislation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/tech-lobbyists-are-pushing-bad-privacy-bills-washington-state-can-and-must-do https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/tech-lobbyists-are-pus... Interview with the author of the above piece on the topic: https://opensourcesecurity.io/2022/02/13/episode-310-hayley-tsukayama-from-the-eff-talks-about-privacy/ https://opensourcesecurity.io/2022/02/13/episode-310-hayley-...