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California Lawmakers Advance Last-Minute Data Privacy Bill (go.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the better-late-than-never dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: California state senators advanced a last-minute internet privacy bill Tuesday ahead of a deadline while acknowledging it would need changes if it becomes law. The bill would let consumers ask companies what personal data they collect and opt out of having their data sold, among other privacy provisions. Lawmakers voted to pass the measure, AB375, out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The bill is aimed at keeping a related initiative off the November ballot. Lawmakers negotiated it with San Francisco housing developer Alastair Mactaggart, who spent millions of dollars to place the initiative on the ballot. He said he would pull the measure from the ballot if the bill is signed into law by the Thursday deadline to withdraw initiatives. The bill now moves to the Senate Appropriations Committee, a spokeswoman for co-author Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, said. The full Assembly and Senate each plan to vote on the bill Thursday. Gov. Jerry Brown's office has not said whether he will sign it.

32 comments

  1. 8==T=R=E=A=S=O=N=C=U=C=K==D -~-_. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

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    2. Re: 8==T=R=E=A=S=O=N=C=U=C=K==D -~-_. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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    3. Re: 8==T=R=E=A=S=O=N=C=U=C=K==D -~-_. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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    4. Re: 8==T=R=E=A=S=O=N=C=U=C=K==D -~-_. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Still butthurt.

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  2. NO! Do not pull the ballot initiative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Amendments suggested by Mactaggart were scrapped ahead of the committee hearing after a coalition funded by technology giants decried them, demonstrating their influence in the Capitol.

    LOL. Gee, I wonder what technology giants in California make up that coalition? If the ballot initiative stays, suddenly I think supporting Republicans won't quite be so odious to Silicon Valley companies' leadership.

    1. Re: NO! Do not pull the ballot initiative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Remember, silicon valley "tech" firms and bankers buy democrats. The people who actually make a real product buy republicans.

  3. I love this part by JustNiz · · Score: 2

    > The bill would let consumers ask companies what personal data they collect and opt out of having their data sold, among other privacy provisions.

    This badly needs to happen. ...I cant imagine companies like Facebook actually playing along with it for a single moment though, even if they claim they are.

    1. Re:I love this part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      They probably wont play along. But I can see them instituting a "Check this box to pay with credit card" or "Check this box to allow us to collect personal information", then they can say they are waiving the $whatever monthly charge to use the service if you give them your info to sell.

    2. Re:I love this part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      if you dont like facebook using your data, then dont use it. you have no right to use the product for free. This law is clearly government overreach.

    3. Re:I love this part by drew_kime · · Score: 4, Insightful

      if you dont like facebook using your data, then dont use it.

      If I don't use Facebook, they still collect my data from friends who do use it, and from sites I visit.

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    4. Re:I love this part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Facebook doesn't sell your data. They use what they know about you to sell ad space to third parties, but the third parties never recieve any data on you from Facebook.

      This law would have zero impact on Facebook.

      It may however, have a big impact on all the loalty card pushers.....

    5. Re:I love this part by AHuxley · · Score: 0

      Parts of the USA tried that with their homeless tax.
      Big brands just looked at better parts of the USA with no new tax.

      CA brings in a privacy bill that stops ads and collect it all?
      Every US state with low cost hydro/solar power, fast internet and a well educated population states to look much more investment worthy.
      The more CA demands from the private sector, the more other better US states become a smarter investment option.
      Big brands don't need CA. CA needs big brands to cover their state tax rates.

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      Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
    6. Re:I love this part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Austin, TX is the new Silicon Valley.

      South-by-Southwest, bunch of game studios around where id Software was. Google Fiber. Texas sells excess wind energy to California, and has all the oil and gassoline your hotrod needs (buy some carbon[scam]credits with the money you save because Texas has no State Income Tax).

      The writing is on the wall for Cali. The politics there are so toxic it's almost like the powers that be WANT to crash the system with no survivors to have a reset... or perhaps move operations.

      P.S. Did I mention Austin is a weird liberal oasis in the mostly red Texas where there's essentially a strange "truce". People don't try to run you out of your job because of your political views and the going slogan is, "Keep Austin Weird". See you on 6th street.

    7. Re:I love this part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ha, wait'll you get overrun with immigrants. Not from Mexico, but from California where the migrating hipsters will bring their toxic SJWism and spread it to the rest of the state. They'll kill Texas just like they are doing in California.

    8. Re:I love this part by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      Browsers have Add Ons to stop that kind of social media tracking.

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      Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
    9. Re:I love this part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, things are really terrible in California....

      "California lawmakers approved and sent Gov. Jerry Brown a $200 billion state budget on Thursday, using revenue from a rosy economy to build $16 billion in reserves and steer hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding to universities and programs for the homeless."

      Sacramento Bee -- June 14, 2018

    10. Re:I love this part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Did Austin steal it's slogan from Portland? Also this person from TripAdvisor found 6th street to be less then stellar:

      https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g30196-d1863269-r324460968-6th_Street-Austin_Texas.html

      "Homeless Begging EVERYWHERE!
      During the day the place did not feel safe. It smelled of urine and beer. Every other person we passed on the street asked for money"

    11. Re:I love this part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Browsers have Add Ons to stop that kind of social media tracking.

      I would settle for Facebook , Google etc only be prohibited to collect data from EU, then the rest of the world, including the US can be harvested while the EU can continue to have access to the services provided by Facebook, Google etc :-)

      Afterall, Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon etc... all the big evil companies are American, seems only fair.

    12. Re:I love this part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Interesting that if you search the term "cash strapped california" you get a ton of hits with articles dating to the Obama years. Now they have a rosy economy, just like the rest of the country. Hmmm...

    13. Re:I love this part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Of course they will. Just as Oregon.

      This is why I disagree with Trump. We don't need a wall along the border with Mexico. That's ridiculous.

      We need one along the border with California.

    14. Re:I love this part by Merk42 · · Score: 1

      Browsers have Add Ons to stop that kind of social media tracking.

      Presuming you mean about "...from the sites I visit" what about the first part of GP's comment?
      If I make a post on Facebook that says "I ran into AHuxley while at the $location", and Facebook uses that data as part of all the data it has on your (shadow?) account, what Browser Add On prevents that from happening?

    15. Re:I love this part by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      The hope is to stop 2nd and 3rd and 4th party sites with social media links from tracking random people outside any social media interaction.
      Should a person have a social media account and use that account then tracking could be expected.

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      Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
    16. Re:I love this part by drew_kime · · Score: 1

      Browsers have Add Ons to stop that kind of social media tracking.

      Which browser add on do I install to prevent people I know from sharing their address book with Facebook?

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  4. I'd rather have the initiative by Snotnose · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Otherwise who knows what kind of skullduggery the Sacto slimeballs will bury into their version.

    1. Re:I'd rather have the initiative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're a moron, who knows what kind of BASELESS MORON CLAIMS you'll make without even so much as reading something or waiting for it to come into existence.

    2. Re:I'd rather have the initiative by Snotnose · · Score: 1

      No, I've been watching these bozos for 40+ years now. See also Net Neutrality, from just last week.

    3. Re:I'd rather have the initiative by dszd0g · · Score: 2

      I agree with you. I think the fine is a little heavy handed in the initiative; my perfect version would have the fines from the legislative version. Personally, I don't think either version goes far enough as I would much rather an opt-in system like GDPR than an opt-out system. Ideally a statement in the bill that said a company that is GDPR compliant is complaint with this bill would be nice (making it easier for companies to have fewer compliance requirements).

      The legislative version has a few major loopholes:
      * If a company ties your information to a device ID instead of to your name, they avoid the regulation and don't have to tell you about the information they have on you.
      * The initiative includes both selling and sharing while the legislative one is selling only so companies that enter agreements to share information with each other have a loophole.
      * The initiative prevents companies from charging more to those who opt out while the legislative version has a loophole that allows it.
      * The initiative requires them to tell you which company they sold your information to while the legislative version just requires that they tell you the category (like insurance company). This is not sufficiently informative in my opinion.

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  5. And what about this steaming POS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    https://medium.com/@fightfortheftr/this-california-democrat-is-single-handedly-ruining-our-best-chance-to-save-net-neutrality-47158972781f

  6. Is This Good? by mentil · · Score: 1

    Is this the version that had its teeth removed by adding some huge loopholes?

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    1. Re:Is This Good? by shplopt · · Score: 1

      That's actually a different bill that would uphold net neutrality in California. This one is a bill related to collecting and selling personal information. There's a ballot initiative that would enforce informed consent and prevent telcos from charging higher fees for those that opt-out of data collection. This bill is a watered down, but still significant version of that. This is the most detailed article I could find about it: https://gizmodo.com/california...

  7. damn liberals, always coming after the little guy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ya ya ya