California Privacy Rights Act News

Report from California Watchdog Group Calls for Privacy Protections from Connected Cars

A new report from a consumer group calls out what it says are privacy problems posed for consumers from connected cars and it points to new rules to be developed in California as a potential model across the country. Secret …

Top Biden Tech Advisor Is Critic of Internet Firms; Helped Craft California Privacy Law

President-elect Joe Biden’s top technology adviser helped craft California’s landmark online privacy law and recently condemned a controversial federal statute that protects internet companies from liability, indicators of how the Biden administration may come down on two key tech policy …

$5 Billion Lawsuit Accuses Google of Tracking Users’ Private Internet Activity

Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in “private” mode. The lawsuit seeks at …

California AG Releases Title and Summary for Initiative to Protect Consumer Privacy Campaign

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday released the title and summary for the California Privacy Rights Act, which would beef up the California Privacy Act set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2020. The act amends consumer privacy laws …