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Released: May 03, 2013
Silicon Valley uses growing clout to kill a digital privacy bill
Source: Jessica Guynn and Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)
Silicon Valley has wielded its growing political clout at the state Capitol to kill a digital privacy bill that would have given consumers access to information about them being collected online.
Had the Right to Know Act become law, California would have been the first state to take direct aim at an online industry that stockpiles and trades in a wide range of personal data about nearly every adult in the United States.
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