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The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 was approved unanimously by the state Senate and Assembly today and was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
A legislative bill summary says the law will give Californians "the right to know what PI [personal information] is being collected about them and whether their PI is being sold and to whom; the right to access their PI; the right to delete PI collected from them; the right to opt-out or opt-in to the sale of their PI, depending on age of the consumer; and the right to equal service and price, even if they exercise such rights."
Consumers Union, the advocacy division of Consumer Reports, was an early supporter of the ballot initiative. While the organization said it was pleased that many of the initiative’s provisions were included in the new law, it urged changes to certain aspects of the law that are different from the ballot initiative, and pledged to work for more substantial reforms.
Justin Brookman, the Director of Consumer Privacy and Technology Policy for Consumers Union, said, “We appreciate that this law advances consumer protections in several ways. It gives people access to the information that companies have about them. It extends the right to control the sale of your data, and it provides new security protections in the wake of the Equifax breach.
“However, we have serious concerns about how this legislation introduces very troubling concepts into law. We oppose a provision in the law that allows companies to charge higher prices to consumers who decline to have their information sold to third parties. The California state constitution grants people an inviolable right to privacy. Consumers should not be charged for exercising that right.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday July 01 2018, @07:16PM
You suspect this. Probably correctly [theverge.com], but that's just speculation on my part.
Because there are useful idiots that use facebook for their contact list, even people (like me) who never signed up to facebook are alleged to have shadow profiles.
However, that allegation can't be proven simply because Facebook suggests people as "friends" who happen to have your email in their contacts. No profile is required for that, simply an index built over every email address in every facebook user's contact list. You sign up, they see if any other user has your email, and they mine every field from that user's address book, and create this profile on the fly. No pre-existing shadow profile needed.
Facebook has only admitted that they have collected extra data on facebook users [zdnet.com] who already have a facebook account.
AFIK nobody has proven a shadow account for someone who has NEVER had a facebook account. And Zuckerberg goes to laughable lengths to refuse a direct answer to that.
Congress and the courts should keep asking that question directly until he answers. Because until he does answer, they can't even charge him when/if it is ever proven that shadow accounts on never-facebook users exist.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.