Hard to believe I just heard @jimsteyer claim on @Forum that @CommonSense authored #CCPA and that @ACLU and @EFF have "no expertise on privacy" and have "never passed privacy laws". A thread on why that is outrageous bupkus from #yeson24.
The original data privacy bill that became #CCPA was #AB375 which was introduced BY @ACLU and @EFF via Ed Chau in 2017. The bill stalled in 2017 on the Senate floor, one vote away from the governor. It was much stronger at that time.
Alastair MacTaggart, a wealthy SF landlord who owns @EmeraldFund decided to try a ballot initiative. Because he was not particularly knowledgeable about #privacy, the initiative he self-funded was far less stringent than #AB375
Nonetheless business convinced the Legislature to move heaven and earth to get it off the ballot and in the spring of 2018 a secretive process between the Legislature and business groups and MacTaggart struck what @BobHertzberg called "a deal" to weaken #AB375 and pass it.
.@MarySRoss18 then the president of @CAPrivacyorg, objected to dumping the ballot initiative, but was pressured to let "the deal" go forward. It did. With #CCPA's effective date pushed forward to 2020.
In 2019, everyone and their brother tried to pass amendments to fix the mediocre "deal" of CCPA. Real privacy advocates like @EFF and @ACLU introduced bills to change to opt-in and curb pay for privacy #AB1760 and add a private right of action #SB561.
Meanwhile business groups tried to pass their amendments including altering the def of deindentified indo #AB973, loosen compliance #SB753, sanction loyalty clubs #AB846 and let government buy and sell personal data #AB1416
In the end, most of the amendments failed and #CCPA remained intact. @ACLU and @EFF anchored that fight to preserve #CCPA. It would not have survived without them. They should be thanked, not insulted. Media Alliance testified twice against the pay for privacy bill #AB846
In the meantime, most #Prop24 proponents worked to undermine the privacy strengthening bills SB 561 and AB 1760. #Prop24 supporter @BobHertzberg personally oversaw killing an enforceable private right of action to beef up privacy enforcement, which as @CRAdvocacy notes, is weak.
Now @JimSteyer falsely claims he "authored" #CCPA, which he did not, and spits on the advocates who protected it and tried to strengthen it because he's mad they are identifying all the loopholes and rollbacks hidden in badly written and confusing #Prop24.
Beware those who try to rewrite history and distort past events to defend poor policy choices. We can do better than #Prop24.
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