Data Privacy,
Civil Rights
Jul. 15, 2022
Leak of gun owners’ personal information no reason to relitigate case, AG Bonta says
“The incident involved a public-facing platform that has nothing to do with sharing gun-violence data with qualified researchers for law enforcement purposes, as authorized by AB 173,” read the filing signed by Deputy Attorney General Ryan A. Davis.
Attorney General Rob Bonta asked a federal judge in San Diego not to issue a restraining order that would block him from releasing California gun owners’ personal data to an anti-gun research group, or to reopen the case so that gun-rights plaintiffs can put in the record a data breach of that data that happened last month.
Gun rights groups argue that the information placed in the wrong hands would endanger them. They say their argument w...
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