from The Digital Reader
California just passed a law that is going to cause a lot of binge-drinking (and possibly mass resignations) at US tech companies in the near future. Assembly Bill AB-375, appropriately referred to GDPR-Lite, was signed by the governor of California Thursday. (You can read the text of the bill here.) It is intended to forestall a ballot initiative that would have given consumers even more control over the data collected by tech companies. It's too early to say how this bill will play out in practice, but according to the bill's intro, its goals include: grant a consumer a right to request a business to disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information that it collects about the consumer, the categories of sources from which that information is collected, the business purposes for collecting or selling the information, and the categories of 3rd parties with which the information is shared. require a business to make disclosures about the information and the purposes for which it is used. grant a consumer the right to request deletion of personal information and would require the business to delete upon receipt of a verified request, as specified. grant a consumer a right to request that [...]
Brandon Hall
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