Major Privacy Pecker Races Through California Legislature (Goog; Fb)

Following upwardly on yesterday's "California Has 24 Hours to Pass This Privacy Bill or Else".
From SF Weekly:

If California lawmakers neglect to boost consumer privacy rights past times Th evening, a mensurate on the Nov ballot will.

California lawmakers on Th are racing to piece of occupation past times a privacy neb — non precisely because they can’t await whatever longer to give consumers to a greater extent than rights, but then an impenetrable Nov ballot mensurate doesn’t trounce them to it.

If Gov. Jerry Brown fails to sign the California Data Privacy Protection Act on Th past times v p.m., a ballot mensurate amongst similar protections would rest on the Nov ballot too whatever changes to the police push clitoris would live tough to exercise on their terms. By noon, it passed the Senate.

Alastair Mactaggart, a Bay Area developer who pose over $1 i G 1000 behind the inaugural that he wrote, said he would line it from the Nov ballot if it was signed into police push clitoris on Th — the terminal twenty-four hr catamenia to exercise so. So neb spent the twenty-four hr catamenia racing through Assembly committees too the Senate flooring to run across the deadline.

In addition to boosting consumers’ legal correct to know what happens to their personal information, the mensurate would involve businesses to give away if it sells that information too outright halt if that consumer tells it to. It likewise prevents companies from charging fees for such requests or from discriminating against them.

While companies similar Google, Facebook, Verizon, and Comcast contributed coin to struggle the ballot measure, they haven’t fought lawmakers on the proposed bill....MORE

Earlier this morn The Intercept reported:
Google too Facebook Are Quietly Fighting California’s Privacy Rights Initiative, Emails Reveal

Always keeping inwards hear Nobelist George Stigler too his arguing that regulation tends to favor too entrench incumbents.