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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 …

Americans deserve privacy online. Currently, Big Tech siphons the data of millions of Americans every minute and sells and resells that data for billions of dollars. Most of us never see a dime from any of that. It’s time to put control of data and privacy rights back where it belongs: with ordinary Americans like you and me …

Proposition 24 plugs many holes in CCPA. … Proposition 24 is the essential complement that delivers most of what CCPA originally promised. Please join me in voting yes on Proposition 24 to strengthen consumer privacy laws in California …

CPRA would bolster the existing CCPA law and align California’s law closer with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) …

[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 …