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Preemption Playbook: Big Tech’s Blueprint Comes Straight from Big Tobacco

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ACLU: Big Tech is borrowing a page from Big Tobacco's playbook to wage war on your privacy.

The tobacco industry attempted to use federal law to override a broad swath of existing state laws and prevent states from future action on those areas.

The American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) would preempt many state privacy laws.

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72

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69

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37

Article tone

formal

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English

Language complexity

53

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not offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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