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MarketWatch Article Highlights Impact of Prop 24 on Big Tech

MarketWatch Article Highlights Impact of Prop 24 on Big Tech

On August 22, Marketwatch published an article entitled “California’s landmark privacy law is Facebook’s next ‘nightmare’.”  In this blog will talk about how experts are seeing the potential impact of pro-consumer privacy protections as delivered by Prop 24 on...

Consumer Watchdog Endorses Prop 24 For Consumer Privacy

Consumer Watchdog Endorses Prop 24 For Consumer Privacy

We are very pleased that noted consumer protection organization Consumer Watchdog has endorsed Prop 24.  Consumer Watchdog joins other noted civil society groups such as Common Sense and the NAACP, as well as a host of unions as well as legal and privacy experts....

Why California Needs an Upgrade to Its Current Privacy Law

Why California Needs an Upgrade to Its Current Privacy Law

California needs to upgrade its current privacy law.  We should know, as our group, Californians for Consumer Privacy, we were the ones that worked over 2 years ago to see the current California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) come to fruition.  In this blog...

Yes, Prop 24 Can Be Amended to Further Enhance Privacy

Yes, Prop 24 Can Be Amended to Further Enhance Privacy

Proposition 24 (also known California Privacy Rights Act or “CPRA”) includes a one-way ratchet: a simple majority of the California Legislature (with the Governor’s consent) can amend the law in any way that is pro-consumer-privacy; but no amendments that harm...

Hello Prop 24!

Hello Prop 24!

It's been a while since we blogged, but here at Californians for Consumer Privacy, we have been busy the last 8 months.  Amazingly, over 930,000 of our fellow Californians — more people than the population of states like Wyoming or Vermont, Alaska or...

No On Prop 24 Campaign Is Being Run By Lyft Consultant

No On Prop 24 Campaign Is Being Run By Lyft Consultant

SACRAMENTO, CA — Today the Yes on Prop 24 campaign released a “prospectus memo” by the opposition campaign to the California Privacy Rights Act, that shows a lead consultant for the No on 24 campaign is also working for giant ride-share app company...