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A meeting to consider a bipartisan privacy bill just crumbled

Online privacy protections are once again delayed.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), who co-sponsored APRA alongside Pallone, Rodgers, and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), said in a statement that she was “furious that Republican Leadership did the bidding of Big Tech and special interests” by derailing the markup. Scalise told The Hill on Wednesday that there had been “a lot of concerns expressed about different parts of the bill,” including around private rights of actions that would let individuals pursue lawsuits over alleged privacy violations. The cancellation puts a damper on hopes for national privacy rights, which just a few months ago received a surprising revival when Rodgers and Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) unveiled the APRA draft.

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