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I'm not sending link but Google and Facebook's reps (called the Internet Association), just launched a propaganda site intended to undermine new California privacy law (CCPA) by confusing public into thinking their surveillance advertising is necessary to fund free content. Lies. 
This is the same strategy Google and Facebook backed in Europe. Efforts like this show the insincerity, if not lies, of their CEOs Pichai and Zuckerberg when they write op-eds stating they embrace privacy and try to gaslight lawmakers and the public. Unlike Microsoft and Apple.
Ultimately, G/FB only care to harvest your browsing history across web, your devices to micro-target ads at u. Google rolled out an update in its 10K financial risks a few months ago. This isn't about saving free internet, it's about protecting monopolies.
There is clear, peer-reviewed empirical research, which Google has failed and can't dispute, showing behavioral advertising almost entirely benefits intermediaries (most notably Google and Facebook). And Publishers get little to no benefit. Again, monopolies protecting rent.
Google and Facebook's propaganda will attempt to confuse lawmakers into thinking "tailored" ads require personal data and mining behavior across the web. This is absolutely nuts. Here is a paragraph from a letter we sent a couple weeks ago on a similar and related matter.
bottom-line, Google and Facebook's reps are lying to public in saying it's necessary to track them across the web and have secondary use of their data by third parties. 100% gaslighting telling public they'll have to pay more for content. Here is more from previous DCN letter.
So best thing u can do right now is make sure that no Californians or lawmakers fall for this complete BS meter attempting to scare public into thinking they'll have to pay for Internet if they try to protect their personal privacy. It's a lie. You have a right to your privacy.
and while you're at it, you should also make sure Google and Facebook know that supporting efforts like this only further erodes their declining public trust. And their success in eroding privacy rights only further solidifies the coming antitrust cases against them globally.
Here are the members of Internet Association if you want to let the companies who don’t depend on surveillance advertising know that you don’t like them carrying Google and Facebook’s water by undermining your new privacy protections in California. internetassociation.org/our-members/
