'Functionally useless': California privacy law's big reveal falls short

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California tried to do what Washington hasn’t: force the nation’s tech industry to hand people control over the massive troves of data it collects on them

California tried to do what Washington hasn’t: Force the nation’s tech industry to hand people control over the massive troves of data it collects on them.

“I think it’s a bit of a mess so far, is what I’m observing,” said Jennifer King, the privacy and data policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. “Certainly if there’s no way to truly understand what these numbers are measuring, then it’s really difficult, just from a research perspective.

Bonta, a progressive Democrat from the San Francisco Bay Area who faces a statewide election next year, said in an interview Thursday that the law has established a "strong privacy regime" that his office is still in the early stages of establishing. , which lets all of its customers download and delete their data but counts only the CCPA-linked requests in its self-reporting. Amazon says it’s received fewer than 590,000 deletion requests for all of Amazon.com in the U.S.

Some of the giants that tend to draw considerable consumer skepticism over their data collection methods — like Facebook, Google and Amazon — contend they don’t sell personal data to third parties and that therefore the CCPA’s right to opt out of sale of people’s details doesn’t apply to them. Privacy advocates refute that claim, arguing CCPA applies to online identifiers, such as third-party “cookies” that can track users across the web for marketing purposes.

Target says it logged 650 requests under the CCPA to delete customers’ personal details and agreed to less than half of them, compared to 139,000 requests for the opt-out of the sale of data, which the company mostly honored.

 

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Creating laws vs willingness to prosecute. The latter has always been a problem and loophole in the US. Corporate interests fight the former and if that fails compromise the latter. This isn't a California specific problem but a national one. US should have just adopted GDPR.

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