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Kashmir Hill @kashhill
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California has to pass a privacy bill in the next 48 hours or the policy shit is going to hit the direct democracy fan gizmodo.com/california-has…
All you need to get serious privacy legislation passed in the U.S. is millions of dollars and a legislative crow bar
With the California law that’s very likely to pass this week, it’ll be easier to discover that your phone company is selling your location data to people who are then selling it to bounty hunters. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
Incredibly, they managed to rush this last-minute bill through. Looks like this privacy law will go into effect in California in January 2020.
If you wait until the very last minute to do something, there are going to be some typos. Fine in a blog post, not great in a new law.
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