We are proud to sponsor the California Delete Act (S.B. 362)—a bill authored by State Senator Josh Becker—which would give Californians critical tools to take control of their personal information and protect their privacy.

Why the Delete Act Matters

We—with a group of organizations focused on civil liberties, privacy, reproductive justice, and LGBTQI rights—are proud to join a joint letter supporting California Assembly Bill 793. 

We joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Center for Democracy and Technology, and Public Knowledge in submitting reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Data Breach Reporting Requirements. The comments highlight the need for the FCC to incentivize the telecommunications industry to improve data security practices, create guidelines for network vulnerabilities, and better equip consumers to handle the fallout from breaches.

Given the daily barrage of data breaches impacting consumers, Americans are increasingly demanding stronger privacy protections.

From the expansion of certain protections to the use of automation technology in law enforcement, this legislative session once again saw a number of bills centered around data privacy.

Submitted alongside a coalition of other organizations to the California Privacy Protection Agency for the first regulatory drafting comment period, our comments are generally positive—supporting the agency's crafting of data minimization and dark patterns rules. However, we do have some concerns regarding the regulations which would allow businesses to treat certain users of opt-out preference signals (e.g. Global Privacy Control which allows people to set their browser to communicate their privacy choice to the businesses).

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a federal law that provides baseline privacy and security standards for medical information. The United States Department of Health and Human Services is the federal agency in charge of creating rules that implement and enforce it.

The Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (Rosenthal Act) is a California law that governs debt collection agency practices for personal debts—including how and when a debt collector may contact an individual about money allegedly owed on:

This report compares each state’s data breach notification statutes along 17 key provisions.

Using data available in state data broker registries, this report presents information on 540 unique registered data brokers and their

• privacy policies
• practices
• areas of possible noncompliance