We're proud to stand with Consumer Reports in supporting Senator Becker's SB 361 to improve the registration and transparency requirements of the California Delete Act. Currently data brokers are required to disclose on their registration documents with the California Privacy Protection Agency whether they collect certain kinds of personal information, including reproductive health data, the personal information of minors, or precise geolocation data. SB 361 would additionally require registering brokers make clear on their documentation whether and the extent to which they collect additional categories of sensitive personal information, including account login credentials, government-issued identification numbers, citizenship and immigration status, union membership, sexual orientation, and biometric data.

Exercising your privacy rights can unfortunately be an unnecessarily arduous task. That's why we're proud to stand with a coalition of civil society, consumer protection and privacy advocates supporting Assembly Bill 566, a bill that would require browsers and mobile operating systems to include a setting that enables a consumer to send an opt-out preference signal.

On March 3, Meghan Land will present PRC's report Paying Twice to Learn with Ariel Fox Johnson, Principal, Digital Smarts Law & Policy, at the Northeast OER Summit. They will discuss the report's findings and ways in which OER and privacy advocates might work together to improve student experiences with digital courseware.