The online privacy bill of congressional Republicans is lining up more opponents against it. The trade group including Facebook and Google data collection of users would get narrowed by the legislation and ACLU says that this will limit the ability of the state to pass their own restrictions.

A trade group named as NetChoice that embraces the giants of advertisement like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo, says that Republican Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn proposed bill will make services of web and internet access providers like Comcast and Verizon get permission from users before collecting their data would finish free online services.

NetChoice senior policy counsel Carl Szabo wrote in a blog post this week, “Imagine the world where the next time you use a search engine, instead of seeing results, you see a requirement to enter a credit card. Or the next time you visit USA Today there is fewer content and even more ads on the screen,”

He further said “In this alternate world, you are bombarded with pop-ups and interstitials, all of which are asking for consent in various ways: blanket consent for use of all ‘sensitive’ information, consent for use of some sensitive information, consent for use of sensitive and non-sensitive information, and so on.”

Szabo warns about the fate of the web if the BROWSER Act of Congress advances. Under the law, companies on either side of the online ecosystem would have to get opt-in consent by the users before they can gather and monetize the sensitive data, a reversal of this, largely Federal Trade Commission sets down the opt-out requirement. The sensitive data includes the history of web browsing, a sort that was earlier left unregulated before the FCC passed privacy rules that were exclusively aimed at the internet service providers (ISPs) last year.

According to NetChoice, $340 billion will be erased in the revenue of advertising in the coming five years, as per studies the opt-in regimes are 65% less efficient. The targeted advertisement decrease will result in a large number of ads, fewer content and additional paywalls across famous websites. Moreover, America will be hit by low-income and difficulties for small businesses.

An argument arose that the FTC already implements privacy standards and that the industry regulates itself. However, the FTC rules only demand opt-in consent for the very sensitive data such as health and financial data. For now, efforts of the edge providers like Google Chrome’s “Do Not Track” feature, gets mostly ignored by some websites. There is no law that forces them to comply with the request of the browser.

A committee is chaired by Blackburn that oversees the FCC, supports the House repeal of privacy rules of the agency. Blackburn and some Republicans said that the FCC rules “focused on only one part of the internet ecosystem and ignored edge provider services that collect as much, if not more data, than ISPs.”

Several Republicans who have voted for the repeal count ISPs with few of their major donors and became the target of the constituent criticism of groundswell. The bill of Blackburn gave an invitation to additional criticism, including from consumer advocate groups who state that the legislation is at best disingenuous attempt at protecting political face with the smaller possibility of passing and at the worst cover to prevent states from crossing their own standards of privacy.

Neema Singh Guliani, ACLU legislative counsel wrote the bill “Our skepticism comes from a provision buried at very end of the bill that would explicitly preempt state legislation on these issues — even if a state passes legislation requiring higher privacy standards than Congress,” “The provision appears to be a naked attempt to undercut state privacy efforts.”

In the wake of the repeal of the FCC privacy rules, almost 17 states are working on online privacy legislation. Such functioning is most likely to be proved as an issue for internet service and edge providers, who would have to stick to dissimilar standards of privacy across numerous states.

States such as New Hampshire are supporting rules that are tougher than the ones which FCC passed, including barring ISPs from discount offers to the users choosing to give up privacy protections. Some states are viewing a ban on the collection overall.

The ACLU attorney wrote, “Rep. Blackburn’s bill would do precisely what industry wants, which is prevent states from taking their own actions to ensure high privacy standards,”

No position has been staked out on the bill by the pro-net neutrality group Public Knowledge. Groups such as the Association of National Advertisers, TechFreedom, and Fight for the Future who do not track the privacy issues have opposed the bill.