SAN FRANCISCO — Top Democrats in Washington and on the 2020 campaign trail are taking technology giants to task, calling them too big, too powerful and too careless about privacy. But just as Ms. Pelosi’s Democrats were preparing sweeping House hearings into the tech companies’ concentration of power, some of her party’s leading presidential candidates spent the weekend canvassing Silicon Valley to raise money from one of the nation’s wealthiest and most liberal bastions. Senator Cory Booker was making his fourth trip to Silicon Valley to raise money since declaring for president in February. And Kamala Harris, California’s junior senator, was on her sixth tour of the Bay Area fund-raising circuit this year. [Sign up for our politics newsletter and join our conversation about the 2020 presidential race.]

Source: New York Times June 06, 2019 13:41 UTC