{"id":247132,"date":"2026-05-17T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/small-businesses-storm-capitol-hill-over-digital-ad-costs-and-privacy-bills\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:45:08","slug":"small-businesses-storm-capitol-hill-over-digital-ad-costs-and-privacy-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/small-businesses-storm-capitol-hill-over-digital-ad-costs-and-privacy-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Small businesses storm Capitol Hill over digital ad costs and privacy bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ppc.land\/small-businesses-storm-capitol-hill-over-digital-ad-costs-and-privacy-bills\/\">Small businesses storm Capitol Hill over digital ad costs and privacy bills<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ppc.land\/small-businesses-storm-capitol-hill-over-digital-ad-costs-and-privacy-bills\/\">https:\/\/ppc.land\/small-businesses-storm-capitol-hill-over-digital-ad-costs-and-privacy-bills\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-17 04:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"ppc.land\">ppc.land<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A coalition of small business owners and entrepreneurs descended on Capitol Hill today and tomorrow &#8211; May 12 and 13, 2026 &#8211; to press lawmakers directly on what they describe as the rising cost of operating online. Internet for Growth, which organised the event as its fourth annual fly-in during National Small Business Month, brought entrepreneurs and digital creators from across the country to Washington to argue that congressional and state-level decisions on\u00a0<strong>privacy legislation<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>digital advertising<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>artificial intelligence<\/strong>\u00a0are already shaping what it costs to run a small business &#8211; and, by extension, what consumers pay.<\/p>\n<p>The fly-in is not a routine stakeholder event. It arrives at a moment when Congress is actively weighing a national privacy framework that could displace dozens of state laws, while individual states are advancing\u00a0<strong>digital advertising taxes<\/strong>\u00a0that small businesses say would push costs up the supply chain and onto them. According to Internet for Growth, the coalition represents hundreds of small businesses, entrepreneurs, creators, and digital professionals across all 435 congressional districts.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-legislative-backdrop\">The legislative backdrop<\/h2>\n<p>The timing of the fly-in is inseparable from two parallel tracks of legislation. On April 21, 2026, Representative Joyce of Pennsylvania introduced the\u00a0SECURE Data Act (H.R. 8413), a House Republican bill that would replace all US state privacy laws with a single federal framework. Internet for Growth expressed conditional support for the bill the following day, while explicitly warning that its opt-out provisions for targeted advertising could reduce the addressable audience for every small business running digital campaigns &#8211; including those operating well below the bill&#8217;s controller thresholds.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Association of National Advertisers endorsed the SECURE Data Act on April 22, 2026, framing its support around the 29 million US jobs the advertising industry supports. 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