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SACRAMENTO — The fight over California’s landmark internet-privacy law could soon lead to warfare between tech companies and privacy-rights advocates at the ballot box. Alastair Mactaggart, a wealthy San Francisco developer, said he plans to bankroll an initiative...

ACRAMENTO — Californians would have more control over the collection of their health and financial data and there would be stiff penalties for companies that wrongly share and sell data about children under a November 2020 statewide ballot measure that will be...

The San Francisco advocate who spearheaded California’s landmark law protecting the privacy of consumers’ online data is planning to propose a new initiative on Wednesday to create and enforce a data privacy bill of rights. It’s not clear all privacy advocates will be...

While Congress has stalled on new privacy bills, a real estate developer is pushing for broader data rights in the Golden State. Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Greetings from New York...

The activist who spurred California to adopt the country’s first-ever consumer privacy law is readying for another battle: a new ballot initiative that would be even tougher on tech giants and other big businesses that collect people’s personal information. The...