Security News > 2021 > February > Big Tech will try to pre-empt harsh privacy laws by writing their own

For globally operating tech companies, these developments point to a future where data privacy will become a compliance minefield.

With an incoming Vice President who has a strong record of promoting consumer privacy protection legislation and a substantial political mandate for change, more stringent privacy laws are a question of when rather than if.

It is for this reason that future support for national privacy legislation is likely to come from big tech itself - as long as it can be crafted on their terms.

How will Big Tech shape its own privacy legislation.

Though it's hard to say what future federal privacy legislation might look like, Big Tech will undoubtedly try to shape its final form.

What is certain is that tech companies will increase their lobbying efforts to ensure they have at least an indirect influence on any future US privacy legislation.

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