California lawmakers on Thursday sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk a first-in-the-nation measure that would impose new regulations on data brokers—companies that amass and sell personal information—by giving residents significantly more control over the collection of their personal data.
The bill (S.B. 362) by state Sen. Josh Becker (D) would grant a state resident the ability to delete all personal data collected by the state’s nearly 500 registered data brokers through a single “delete button” housed at the website for the California Privacy Protection Agency. It passed the state Assembly on a 52-14 vote on Wednesday. The state ...
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