Ad Tech Group Asks California to Delay Privacy Law Enforcement

An advertising technology trade group representing Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google is asking the California attorney general to delay enforcement of the nation’s toughest privacy statute so they can focus on the novel coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s appropriate to cease enforcement until next year because of the very limited time for companies to come into compliance and the virtually unprecedented disruption caused by the current global COVID-19 pandemic,” said Dan Jaffe, vice president of government relations at the Association of National Advertisers, in a statement.

Companies were to file comments with Attorney General Xavier Becerra by Friday on his proposed ...