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> Utah, Conneticut, Virginia and Colorado have Internet privacy laws

No plans for a US federal regulation here? Wouldn't that save a lot of money and headache for everyone, if instead of complying with 50 different regulations you had one?

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The federal government has a lot less power than a lot of people think, there are limits to control over interstate commerce and nobody wants Google to be regulated like a telephone company.

You should google Wickard v. Filburn. The US Supreme Court ruled that the US government can regulate what you grow on your own land for your own consumption, because it affects inter-state trade.

There is the concept of a 'US National' set of regulations too. IANAL, so I don't know if it's a Federal regulation.

It's about to become increasingly tedious to be a website operator.

https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/Global-Priva...

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