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Google And Facebook Are Quietly Fighting California’S Privacy Rights Initiative, Emails Reveal
Here's an excerpt from the article:
If you hate that a large portion of your internet bill is subsidizing your ISP and online services' gathering of your personal data so that they can sell it for profit, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
If you hate that the lowest settings for personal data-harvesting in Windows 10 Home and Pro still gathers your personal data from over 3,500 individual data streams to create a meticulous and comprehensive picture of your every step in the OS that is associated with your person, and which Microsoft profits from selling to whoever, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
If you hate the malicious designs of Windows 10 including forced updates and resets, file-associations resetting, UI mods breaking with each major update, and all other things in Windows 10 that trace back to Microsoft's goal of forcing as much personal user data into their servers so that they can sell it for their profit and preventing people from doing anything to obstruct Microsoft's ability to harvest your personal data, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
If you hate that your own personal life is being turned into the equity and a subject of these companies, against your will or choice, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
If you hate that even your graphics card drivers and games are starting to be stuffed with data-harvesting, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
If you hate that your own personal life is being turned into the equity and a subject of these companies, against your will or choice, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
Regardless of whether you live in California or the USA, if you want a stop to be put to the harvesting and selling of personal user data without the will of the software, system, or service user, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
Having this proceed in California without it being neutered would force business model changes throughout the data-selling industry, and could greatly increase exposure of which companies are selling personal user data. It would also put the discussion of the topic permanently out in the open, and could lead to similar legislation being passed by other states and countries.
The world needs this proposed legislation, and it has to start somewhere. I hope that if you live in California you might call your MP or whatever your representatives are called and put the pressure on them to see that this vote happens, and that tech/data companies are not permitted to water down the proposed legislation. And if you know people in California who are tech-minded, I hope that you make them aware of this legislation and encourage them to do the same.
And believe it or not, the negatives of unfettered unilateral data-harvesting by tech companies are still in the early stages.
Here's an excerpt from the article:
LOBBYISTS FOR THE largest technology and telecommunication firms have only three days to prevent the California Consumer Privacy Act, a ballot initiative that would usher in the strongest consumer privacy standards in the country, from going before state voters this November.
The initiative allows consumers to opt out of the sale and collection of their personal data, and vastly expands the definition of personal information to include geolocation, biometrics, and browsing history. The initiative also allows consumers to pursue legal action for violations of the law.
The idea that Californians might gain sweeping new privacy rights has spooked Silicon Valley, internet service providers, and other industries that increasingly rely on data collection, leading to a lobbying push to defeat the initiative before it gains traction. Their best hope may be to convince the sponsors of the initiative, including San Francisco real estate developer Alastair Mactaggart, to pull the proposal in exchange for compromise privacy legislation, AB 375, which would achieve some of the same goals of the initiative. Lawmakers behind the legislation, led by State Assembly member Ed Chau, D-Monterey Park, and State Senator Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, have promised to swiftly pass their bill this week if sponsors withdraw CCPA.
Emails obtained by The Intercept reveal that tech giants are fighting behind the scenes to water down the privacy legislation, hoping to prevent an expensive and potentially losing ballot fight this year.
Andrea Devaeu, a lobbyist for TechNet, a trade group for Google, Facebook and other tech companies, has continually updated an ad-hoc business lobbying coalition formed to defeat the CCPA. In an update sent on Sunday evening, Devaeu provided a “compilation of feedback re: the most problematic aspects of AB 375.”
If you hate that a large portion of your internet bill is subsidizing your ISP and online services' gathering of your personal data so that they can sell it for profit, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
If you hate that the lowest settings for personal data-harvesting in Windows 10 Home and Pro still gathers your personal data from over 3,500 individual data streams to create a meticulous and comprehensive picture of your every step in the OS that is associated with your person, and which Microsoft profits from selling to whoever, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
If you hate the malicious designs of Windows 10 including forced updates and resets, file-associations resetting, UI mods breaking with each major update, and all other things in Windows 10 that trace back to Microsoft's goal of forcing as much personal user data into their servers so that they can sell it for their profit and preventing people from doing anything to obstruct Microsoft's ability to harvest your personal data, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
If you hate that your own personal life is being turned into the equity and a subject of these companies, against your will or choice, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
If you hate that even your graphics card drivers and games are starting to be stuffed with data-harvesting, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
If you hate that your own personal life is being turned into the equity and a subject of these companies, against your will or choice, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
Regardless of whether you live in California or the USA, if you want a stop to be put to the harvesting and selling of personal user data without the will of the software, system, or service user, then you'll want this act to pass without it being watered down.
Having this proceed in California without it being neutered would force business model changes throughout the data-selling industry, and could greatly increase exposure of which companies are selling personal user data. It would also put the discussion of the topic permanently out in the open, and could lead to similar legislation being passed by other states and countries.
The world needs this proposed legislation, and it has to start somewhere. I hope that if you live in California you might call your MP or whatever your representatives are called and put the pressure on them to see that this vote happens, and that tech/data companies are not permitted to water down the proposed legislation. And if you know people in California who are tech-minded, I hope that you make them aware of this legislation and encourage them to do the same.
And believe it or not, the negatives of unfettered unilateral data-harvesting by tech companies are still in the early stages.
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