CCPA

The California Senate Judiciary Committee heard five bills on Tuesday that EFF and other privacy advocates strongly opposed. These measures, backed by big business and the tech industry, would have eviscerated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a landmark privacy law passed last year. We..... The committee also spent significant time discussing the two remaining bills aimed at weakening the CCPA: A.B. 846 (Asm. Autumn Burke), which would make it easier for businesses to force consumers to pay for their privacy rights under the guise of loyalty programs, and A.B. 1564 (Asm. Mark Berman), which would make it harder for low-income Californians to exercise their privacy rights. We appreciate that Sen. Jackson negotiated with both authors to take amendments in committee on their bills that address some of our concerns. We look forward to continuing these conversations... Certbot is made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a 501(c)3 nonprofit based in San Francisco, CA,..

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