Tri-City Record: Big Tech lobbies New Mexico for AG-backed bill

The House Commerce panel on March 3 also heard opposition to HB410 from Catrina Fitzgerald, deputy director of the Washington D.C.-based nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center. She said part of the problem with existing state data privacy laws is that they’re heavily influenced by Big Tech, and they don’t do enough to protect people online. 

“They do little to change the status quo of companies being able to collect and use personal data however they like, as long as they tell us what they’re doing in a privacy policy that no one reads,” she said.

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