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“Americans sense that tech companies are playing fast and loose with our data, making billions of dollars. We need to change it and get control of our own data,” Yang said …

Las empresas más grandes del mundo recopilan información profundamente personal y privada sobre todos nosotros. La información se comparte y se vende sin muchas restricciones y, con frecuencia, ni siquiera se mantienen a salvo. La Proposición 24 permite a los residentes de California recuperar el control sobre su información personal …

Vote Yes … Prop. 24 is intended to strengthen the 2018 law by clarifying some provisions and making enforcement easier through the creation of a new state agency, while reducing the number of businesses that are affected …

[Prop 24] is a solution that creates a strong baseline and would establish privacy rights in a robust fashion. It could also help revitalize cross-Atlantic commerce by harmonizing US and EU consumer privacy standards while also giving a much-needed lift to California’s economy …

Proposition 24, also known as the California Privacy Rights Act, would strengthen California’s landmark digital privacy law. The Fresno Bee Editorial Board recommends a yes vote on Prop. 24 …

Prop 24 will require tech companies to refrain from sharing a consumer’s data if it receives a request from the consumer. The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board recommends a yes vote on Prop. 24 …

[With Prop 24] Californians will be able to stop companies from tracking their locations and behavior or use sensitive personal information such health, race and sexual orientation. It establishes rights to object to automated processing and to know about and contest algorithmic profiling, and it includes provisions for its continuous fortification against the assaults of tech lobbyists. … Now it is California’s turn to lead on behalf of our digital century. Prop. 24 answers this call …

Having watched the internet industry wrestle with the question of privacy from the infancy of the World Wide Web and repeatedly fail to achieve anything close to adequate self-regulation, I’m inclined to think something like Prop. 24 and its counterpart in Europe, the General Data Protection Regulation, are necessary …

Importantly, it [Prop 24] will permit changes through the legislature (instead of voters) to further improve the law as long as they are consistent with the goal of increasing data privacy …

Prop. 24 would [give] each consumer power to stop companies from tracking them precisely, allowing you to forbid the sale of information on things like how often you visit a gym or McDonald’s, your health insurance claims, and much more unless you explicitly give permission …

This [Prop 24] initiative would tighten California’s landmark privacy law, which stands to be a model for other states and the federal government — if Big Business doesn’t succeed in eroding it …

Like the GDPR, the CPRA would grant consumers the right to correct inaccurate personal information. Upon a verifiable consumer request, businesses would be required to use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information about a California resident. The CPRA also follows the GDPR’s lead in introducing data minimization on a larger scale …

“California voters really want this. … Many of the tech companies don’t like it, but they’re just, like, ‘I don’t know if we’re going to fight this one in time, because it’s hard to fight something that’s so clearly pro-consumer. If this thing passes in November, and I believe it will, it’ll sweep the country.” …

he California Privacy Rights Act, on the ballot this November as Proposition 24, explicitly turns “do not sell” into “do not sell or share.” The law, which is expected to pass, wouldn’t take effect until 2023, but it would eventually force businesses to honor the global privacy control …

Prop 24 seeks to put an end to this kind of discrimination [digital redlining] and abuse of our most private information. Prop 24 creates new rights to stop businesses from using our sensitive personal information, including our health and financial data …

Google and Facebook hate a new proposed law [Prop 24] … The good news for consumers and news publishers alike is that CPRA [Prop 24] seeks to close any loopholes in the previous privacy law the state passed two years ago …

“I think this [Prop 24] is going to be an opportunity for us to set a national standard,” said Yang. “As soon as other states see that Californians have these data and privacy rights, they’re going to want the same thing.” …

Prop 24 ““gives you the right to find out what information a business has collected about you, it gives you the right to tell businesses not to sell that information, and it gives you the right to delete that information” …

If Proposition 24 passes, it would make changes to California’s new consumer privacy law, allowing consumers new rights to limit the sharing of their personal information …

The CPRA [Proposition 24] redefines the privacy landscape, and goes well beyond the requirements imposed by the CCPA. The changes in the CPRA will push entities to take such actions as being even stricter with their uses of personal information, offering additional rights to consumers, …

Proposition 24 (consumer data privacy) — Yes. The state’s groundbreaking data privacy law has come under attack in the Legislature. This measure would expand the protections for personal data and bar the Legislature from weakening them, while leaving the door open for improvements …