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The California Consumer Privacy Act's backers have turned in 625,000 signatures in their effort to get the measure on the California ballot in November, they said Thursday.
The proposed initiative aims to allow consumers to see what personal information companies are collecting about them and ask the companies to stop selling that information, and also seeks to hold businesses accountable for data breaches.
[...] The measure is opposed by companies such as AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and Google, which have all donated $200,000 each to fight the measure. Facebook has also given $200,000 to the opposition. However, Facebook last month said it would leave the effort to fight the initiative.
Source: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/03/california-privacy-measures-backers-submit-signatures/
The California Consumer Personal Information Disclosure and Sale Initiative (#17-0039) may appear on the ballot in California as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.
See also: Facebook withdraws from group fighting a major California privacy initiative
(Score: 5, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Monday May 07 2018, @11:40PM
When I want privacy, I don't sign my real name. When I do a contract and it needs to be private, I use a fake name. David Dennison. And I tell the other person, we made up a fake name for you, it's not your stage name. Peggy Peterson. And the private contract is between those fake people. But we do a second contract that says, David Dennison is really Donald J. Trump. And Peggy Peterson is really whoever. Obviously I'm not going to say who it is. Because it's private. When we sign, we sign the first contract with our fake names. And we sign the second contract with our real names. Very important to sign both contracts!