While Apple formally supports the notion of a federal privacy law, the company has yet to formally back any bills proposed on the Hill — unlike Microsoft. On the issue of privacy, Apple itself has helped create sky-high expectations with its public pronouncements. On privacy legislation, most of the action is taking place outside Washington. “The states will influence privacy legislation,” said University of California at Berkeley law professor Paul Schwartz, who has studied the interplay between state and federal privacy legislation. When it came to that particular privacy bill, Apple wasn’t an advocate for consumer privacy protections, he said.

Source: Washington Post July 15, 2019 13:16 UTC