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[Prop 24] would prohibit legislators from weakening the California Consumer Privacy Act, create a state agency to enforce privacy protections, and give people more control over how tech companies use their personal information, such as race or health data …

The CPRA would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to provide a greater level of rights for consumers and more stringent restrictions on data practices of businesses, including regarding the use of personal info for advertising and marketing purposes …

Prop 24 takes consumer rights further. It affords consumers more rights to prevent the sharing of their personal information and limits businesses’ use of sensitive personal information like geolocation, race, ethnicity, religion, genetic data, union membership, certain sexual orientation and health information …

But other factors may also come into play as companies seek to reboot the US-EU data-sharing framework. Voters in California will have a chance to weigh in because there is a new initiative on the November ballot in the US’s most populous state — the California Privacy Rights Act — which aligns closely with existing EU data protection law …

The LA Times Editorial Board … finds the bill to be an improvement over the California Consumer Privacy Act, noting it is closer to the text of the EU General Data Protection Regulation …

Kumail Nanjiani interview: “If the app is free, you are the product … I think the big existential crisis is Big Tech … Vote Yes on Prop 24!” …

In the end, the questions for voters are whether Proposition 24 would make privacy protections stronger, whether it goes far enough to make a meaningful difference, and whether it would enable the state to provide even better protections in the future. The answer to all three is yes …

The CPRA will expand the rights of California residents under the current (stringent) California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) … It also would allow consumers to limit the use and disclosure of their sensitive personal information …

It seems pretty clear to me that state legislatures are going to end up taking the lead, with California front and center. When I realized that there was an opportunity to have California help the U.S. catch up to global leaders in protecting people’s data and privacy rights, it was a no brainer for me to do everything I could to support it …

Prop 24 supports the creation of a California Privacy Protection Agency to enforce an expanded version of the state’s consumer data privacy law, allowing consumers to direct businesses to not share their personal information …

Yang in an interview says this about impact of Prop 24 passing: “You would end up with this set of data and privacy rights hopefully sweeping the country.” …

Last week, the effort to approve the CPRA gained a prominent supporter as former Democratic Party presidential candidate Andrew Yang was named chair of the advisory board for Californians for Consumer Privacy …

Proposition 24 would allow customers to tell businesses not to share data about them. It would also allow customers to opt-out of having their sensitive personal information sold or used for advertising, and provide a host of additional protections for minors …

Months after running a Presidential campaign focused on math, technology, and the rise of automation, businessman Andrew Yang spoke exclusively with FOX 11’s Elex Michaelson about data protection and his new role working to pass Proposition 24 …

CPRA will bring the California privacy laws closer to the GDPR. … The end result is something that is much simpler to read and process …

On November 3, 2020, Californians will vote on Proposition 24, a ballot measure that would create the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). If passed, the CPRA would expand the recently operative California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and move California’s privacy regime toward that of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) …

This ballot initiative effectively would amend the CCPA to impose additional privacy-related requirements on California businesses, and also make other substantive changes to the CCPA. While difficult to predict, it appears at this point that the initiative has a good chance of passing …

The CPRA, if approved by California voters, will enhance the consumer privacy protections set forth in the CCPA …

A talk with Andrew Yang, Former Presidential Candidate & Chair of the Advisory Board for Californians for Consumer Privacy, about what it was like to run for President & Proposition 24 …

Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang is throwing his weight behind California’s November data privacy ballot measure — not just endorsing the initiative but chairing its advisory board …

California has the strongest consumer privacy law in the country already, but Proposition 24 would strengthen it and create a new enforcement agency. The measure would let residents prevent businesses from sharing their personal information …