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The California ballot measure Proposition 24, or the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), has passed, pushing the state even further ahead of the rest of America when it comes to data privacy legislation.
CPRA adds to California’s existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). CCPA is one of the strongest privacy laws in a country with few of them, giving Californians the power to know what data businesses have and collect about them and to tell those businesses not to sell data to anyone else.
CCPA went into effect on January 1, and it wasn’t perfect by any means, but most privacy advocates seemed to agree that it was a good start, both for the state and for any other state or federal laws its passage may inspire.
Californians for Consumer Privacy was behind Proposition 24, which it believed would further strengthen the CCPA and close some of the loopholes businesses were using to get around the law. The group’s founder, Alastair Mactaggart, is also the reason the […]
