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.
If you're a survivor of domestic violence, both federal and state laws offer important privacy protections to help keep you safe in your housing.
Federal protections apply nationwide:
- The Violence Against Women Act prevents federally-funded housing providers from sharing your survivor status or documentation you provide.¹ These records cannot be entered into shared databases where an abuser might find them.
State and Local Protections
It depends. A landlord may introduce facial recognition or biometric entry systems, but requiring you to use them could violate federal, state, or local privacy, tenant rights, or anti-discrimination laws.
Federal Protections
Landlord monitoring can cross the line into illegal surveillance when a landlord violates a tenant's reasonable expectation of privacy or a specific federal or state law.
Federal Protections
The California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) protects Californians against unauthorized interception, recording, and eavesdropping on private communications, conversations, or telephone calls.
"Privacy advocates welcomed the CPPA ruling. 'My hope is that enforcement actions like this generally incentivize companies to take consumer privacy more seriously across their products and services,' wrote Meghan Land, Executive Director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse."
Read more here.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, alongside civil rights, consumer advocates, and privacy organizations, urges support for California Assembly Bill 446 (AB 446), legislation designed to ban the unfair practice of "surveillance pricing." Surveillance pricing occurs when businesses use personal consumer data, such as browsing history, location, or past purchases, to set individualized prices, resulting in unfair price discrimination.
This critical legislation strengthens privacy protections by prohibiting the sale of electronic health data, requiring affirmative consent for data processing, and ensuring that health data remains private and protected.
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