Tech giants hope for US data privacy law


The logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. This European data rights charter influenced California, which has now had the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) for over a year. — AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: Google, Twitter and Amazon are hopeful that Joe Biden’s incoming administration in the United States will enact a federal digital data law, senior company officials said at CES, the annual electronics and technology show.

“I think the stars are better aligned than ever in the past,” Keith Enright, Google’s chief data privacy office, told a discussion Tuesday on trust and privacy.

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