> Introduced by State Assembly member Ed Chau and state senator Robert Hertzberg, the bill would allow California residents to find out what information businesses and data brokers collect about them, where that information comes from, and how it's shared. It would give people the power to ask for their data to be deleted and to order businesses to stop selling their personal information. It places limits on selling data on users younger than 16 years of age, and prohibits businesses from denying service to users for exercising their rights under the bill.<p>This is fantastic.<p>I've been trying to opt out of as many data brokers as I can. It's a huge amount of work and many of them try to make the process as painful as possible (since, IIRC, there's no law compelling them to provide and opt-out, so it's just a courtesy).<p>I really wish there was some kind of national data-broker opt-out system where you could register your preferences, which the brokers would then be required to honor [1].<p>[1] I'm thinking of something like a blinded service where the broker sends the PII and gets a response back with usage restrictions (e.g. no people-search, do not share with 3rd parties, etc.).
Maybe the OP would like to look up the word "reign" in the dictionary. It doesn't seem to appear in TFA.<p>It is a perhaps understandable mistake for someone whose native language isn't English. "Reign" is about kings ; "rein" is about horses.
How in the world will any small company in it's infancy be able to know whether they're even properly complying with all of the new privacy rules without paying for an expensive audit?<p>Web based, personal projects seem to be the most vulnerable.
I just spent a couple weeks in
Europe and almost every site you visit (including US sites) has Collis and data collection popup notifications. Most allow you to accept or manage your settings but after a few pages you couldn’t be bothered anymore and it’s just an annoyance. If you want anonymity on the net get a VPN and throw away accounts. The only resolving point would be places that require true identity. Hold them to a higher standard and ignore the rest.
1. Regardless of politics, legislating for net neutrality and privacy on the state level is just silly.<p>2. This won’t “reign in” the big firms it’ll shield them from competition.<p>3. At a time when China is totally protecting their tech firms from outside competition and providing them with stolen IP and the EU is using every tool in their disposal to go after US tech companies the last thing our lawmaker should do is try and stab our tech firms in the back.