WASHINGTON—House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy backed the idea of national legislation to safeguard consumers’ data privacy, adding a prominent GOP voice to the bipartisan support in Congress for tackling how technology companies amass and use their information. Lawmakers from both parties in the House and Senate have been working on bills aimed at strengthening individuals’ ability to control their data collected by the biggest technology companies, including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc....

Source: Wall Street Journal June 20, 2019 22:24 UTC