Google kept its lobbying on this privacy bill super, super quiet – The Markup

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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…