Democrats brace for ‘tug of war’ with tech after midterms

NetChoice, a trade group counting Facebook, Google and eBay among its members, sees “a real threat and not in a good way with [a] Democratically controlled House in advancing federal privacy legislation,” said general counsel Carl Szabo. He said NetChoice is especially concerned Democrats won’t be as inclined as Republicans to preempt states from passing their own privacy laws, which would leave the industry with a patchwork of different rules.