Government
Jul. 11, 2019
Two bills to weaken online privacy law fail in Legislature
Supporters of an online privacy law passed last year have been warning for months that it could be severely undermined by several pending bills backed by the technology industry.
Supporters of an online privacy law passed last year have been warning for months it could be severely undermined by several pending bills backed by the technology industry.
But on Tuesday night, those bills ran into a firewall in the form of the Senate Judiciary Committee and its chair, Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara.
Some of the five bills flagged by privacy advocates weren’t heard un...
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