Google’s Privacy Legislation Proposal • San Francisco Uber Tax Ballot

Google may be trying to stay a step ahead of lawmakers’ plans to write data protection legislation.

The search giant has laid out its recommendations on a company blog, including that any new legislation should allow consumers to access and delete personal information given to marketers. The post, written by Google’s Chief Privacy Officer, Keith Enright, says Google supports “comprehensive” privacy regulation.

Data-collecting companies should be “transparent about the types of personal information they collect, why they collect it, and how they use or disclose it,” the company said. Data collectors also would have to “make reasonable efforts to keep ...