Marsha Blackburn pushes ‘light-touch’ Internet privacy regulation

Published June 5, 2017 4:01am ET



Less than three months after Congress used the Congressional Review Act to repeal Obama-era privacy regulations at the Federal Communications Commission, Republican lawmakers are now taking the lead on legislation for “light-touch” protection of personal information.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and several other GOP lawmakers are looking to tackle the issue of how best to protect users’ information on the Internet, as Congress prepares to address a regulatory void.

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