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COMMERCE SECRETARY CONFIRMED: The Senate confirmed Gina Raimondo as Commerce secretary on Tuesday in an 84-15 vote despite early GOP efforts to block her nomination.
Raimondo, who has served as governor of Rhode Island since 2015, faced pushback as a nominee from Republicans over her comments about keeping Chinese telecom giant Huawei on the Commerce Department’s “entity list.”
Huawei was placed on the entity list, which effectively blacklists the company, by the Trump administration over concerns it posed an espionage threat due to ties to the Chinese government.
During her confirmation hearing, Raimondo said she would review the policy and consult with lawmakers, allies and industry experts, but she did not specifically commit to keeping the company on the list.
In addition to California, Virginia is now the second state to enact major privacy legislation of general applicability in the U.S., with the governor signing the Consumer Data Protection Act into law.
James P. Steyer
Virginia is poised to become the second state in the nation to pass a broad consumer privacy bill. Virginiaâs Consumer Data Protection Act has passed through the General Assembly and the governor is expected to sign it any day. The billâs patron insists the law will give individuals control over their digital data, restoring trust in technologies and data-driven companies that have been irresponsible with peopleâs privacy.
Itâs a noble aim, but efforts to regulate how companies collect and use data is notoriously complicated. Common Sense was on the frontlines in California, working to pass its landmark privacy law in 2018 and a ballot initiative last November that strengthened that law. We have seen firsthand how tech companies fight tooth and nail to defeat anything that would change their business practices and then find ways to sneak around and slip away from following the law once anything is passed.
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