The back burner is good resting place to weather concurrent seasons of obstruction and partisan shutdowns. Privacy legislation will improbably pass the federal choke points in 2019. Some will gamble on well-oiled weasles, adding “privacy” to some unread, 3-foot-thick, omnibus partisan legislation, wasting advocacy dollars on PACs. When the President won’t sign another omnibus bill, meh, what can be done? Many won’t gamble at all, resorting to State-borne solutions autonomous from D.C. dysfunction.  Their data security and family privacy interests just won’t wait.