Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, commentators, and even tech companies themselves seem convinced that replacing the current patchwork of state-level privacy laws with a single federal framework is the future. Democrat control of the house means that a federal privacy bill is likely to be a priority for this legislative session. In the last few years there have been several high-profile security breaches, affecting such titans as Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Tech companies in the US, however, are concerned that a similar bill needlessly limits their ability to develop new technologies.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3324478/the-federal-privacy-bill-intel-gets-the-ball-rolling.html