WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- Sen. Ron Wyden issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., urged major tech companies to stop putting small businesses at risk of violating state privacy laws and to let Americans more easily opt-out of invasive surveillance by their advertising tracking tools, in a letter sent on Tuesday.
Writing to the heads of Google, Meta and TikTok, Wyden noted that the companies' advertising tracking tools are designed to collect information on users by default to capture what websites they view, and what sensitive information they enter into sites online. That information is sent back to tech companies to fuel targeted advertising algorithms. These big tech companies all offer altern...