You probably didn’t know that between 2018 and 2020, your privacy rights under California’s state privacy law took a hit when the definition of publicly available information was made a lot bigger via ballot initiative. Now, state senator Aisha Wahab…
Category: Data Privacy
Privacy as an Intersectional Issue
The third legislative briefing in a 4 -webinar series by the State Privacy Coalition. Watch it here! Featuring Jason Koebler from 404Media, Julie Mao from Just Futures Law, Minsu Longiari from Powerswitch Action and Symphoni Barbee from the ACLU, moderated…
What Advocates Look For in Privacy-Related Legislation
Privacy advocates throughout California got together last week to tell Sacramento politicians about what advocates look for in privacy-related legislation and regulation. Asian- Americans Advancing Justice, Tech Equity, EFF and UC Law Center for Constitutional Democracy tackled the biggest loopholes…
Privacy Fallacies: Legislative Briefing
Privacy advocates throughout California got together last week to tell Sacramento politicians about five things they think are true about privacy, but aren’t. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Consumer Reports, COSPR, ACLU and Oakland Privacy tackled themes like consent is enough, enforcement…
How CA Tried to Address Algorithmic and Surveillance Pricing (Part 2)
by Samuel Leitch In 2022, a time when rents continued to soar impossibly, the company RealPage boasted that it could help landlords increase profits even further.1 How was this possible? By pooling nonpublic pricing data from clients, RealPage’s software can…
How CA Tried to Address Algorithmic and Surveillance Pricing (Part 1)
by Samuel Leitch Do rideshare companies charge you more if your phone is about to die? The trending Internet rumor, based in part on a fabricated screenshot posted to Reddit, is ultimately unproven.1 However, it serves as an example of…
Facts and Fiction on the California Invasion of Privacy Act and the problematic SB 690
by Don Marti and Robert Tauler While other states debate private right of action in privacy laws, California already has one, and it’s working for us. Since it was enacted the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) has included an individual’s right to…
Our Sponsored Bills in the State Legislature
Oakland Privacy is the sponsor of two privacy bills in the state legislature this year. AB 1337 (Ward) is a much-needed and overdue revamp of the 1977 Information Practices Act, the seminal government privacy law that followed the addition of…
An Award: Worst State Anti-Privacy Bill of the Year – Senate Bill 690
Update 7/1/25: Senate Bill 690 was parked for the year. While we like to focus on the positive, sometimes we gotta call out the shenanigans. Every year in the State Legislature, one proposal among the 3,000 that get offered stands…
The Latest on Age Verification Laws: Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton
On January 15 the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from the parties to and amici of the case Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. The legal issue at hand is the validity of a preliminary injunction that the district court of…