A prestigious bi-partisan boutique lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. has hired a former top Intel lobbyist and Republican aide on the Senate Judiciary Committee — perhaps signaling what the next hot-button issues for Silicon Valley are going to be for the next few years.Ryan Triplette, Intel’s former director of government relations, has been hired by the four-person Washington D.C. lobbying firm the Franklin Square Group. The firm represents Apple and Google on Capitol Hill, and has been helping the companies explain themselves to the members of both the Judiciary and Senate Commerce Committees, which both have jurisdiction over consumer privacy issues.
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