Google wasn’t against this California privacy bill, officially. Behind the scenes, it orchestrated opposition

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Google wasn’t against this California privacy bill, officially. Behind the scenes, it orchestrated opposition

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By Khari Johnson and Yue Stella Yu, CalMatters
In April, Rhode Island resident Navah Hopkins received a plea for her help to defeat legislation thousands of miles away in California.
The ask came from Google, maker of the world’s most used web browser, Chrome. The tech giant sent a…

This story appeared on siliconvalley.com, 2025-09-11 18:13:45.