Bipartisan data privacy bill seeks to break through Congressional logjam
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Aaron Nicodemus2022-06-06T18:09:00
A bipartisan bill attempting to end the gridlock in Congress over crafting a federal data privacy law was introduced by a pair of Republicans and a Democrat.
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