California passes 'strongest in nation' privacy bill limiting data harvesting
California has passed a landmark privacy bill that restricts the data-harvesting practices of technology companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon and gives consumers more control over their personal information. The California Consumer Privacy Act is designed to provide new protections to the state’s 40 million residents in the wake of major privacy breaches including the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The new rules give Californians the right to see what information is being collected about them and to request that data be deleted...
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