{"id":35543,"date":"2018-06-27T07:09:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T12:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35543"},"modified":"2018-06-27T07:09:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T12:09:36","slug":"google-and-facebook-are-quietly-fighting-californias-privacy-rights-initiative-emails-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35543","title":{"rendered":"Google and Facebook Are Quietly Fighting California’s Privacy Rights Initiative, Emails Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK ARE QUIETLY FIGHTING CALIFORNIA\u2019S PRIVACY RIGHTS INITIATIVE, EMAILS REVEAL<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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LOBBYISTS FOR\u00a0THE<\/u> largest technology and telecommunications firms have\u00a0only three days to prevent the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, a ballot initiative that would usher in the strongest consumer privacy standards in the country, from going before state voters this November.<\/p>\n

The initiative allows consumers to opt out of the sale and collection of their personal data, and vastly expands the definition of personal information to include geolocation, biometrics, and browsing history. The initiative also allows consumers to pursue legal action for violations of the law.<\/p>\n

The idea that Californians might gain sweeping new privacy rights has spooked Silicon Valley, internet service providers, and other industries that increasingly rely on data collection, leading to a lobbying push to defeat the initiative before it gains traction. Their best hope may be to convince the sponsors of the initiative, including San Francisco real estate developer\u00a0Alastair Mactaggart,\u00a0<\/span>to pull the proposal in exchange for compromise privacy legislation, AB 375, which would achieve some of the same goals of the initiative. Lawmakers behind the legislation, led by state Assembly Member Ed Chau,\u00a0D-Monterey Park, and state Sen. Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, have promised to swiftly pass their bill this week if sponsors withdraw the CCPA.<\/p>\n

Emails obtained by The Intercept reveal that tech giants are fighting behind the scenes to water down the privacy legislation, hoping to prevent an expensive and potentially\u00a0losing ballot fight this year.<\/p>\n

Andrea Deveau, a lobbyist for TechNet, a trade group for Google, Facebook, and other tech companies,\u00a0has continually updated an ad-hoc business lobbying coalition formed to defeat the CCPA. In an update sent on Sunday evening, Deveau provided a \u201ccompilation of feedback re: the most problematic aspects of AB 375.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo: Josh Edelson\/AFP\/Getty Images GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK ARE QUIETLY FIGHTING CALIFORNIA\u2019S PRIVACY RIGHTS INITIATIVE, EMAILS REVEAL LOBBYISTS FOR\u00a0THE largest technology and telecommunications firms have\u00a0only three days to prevent the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, a ballot initiative that would usher in the strongest consumer privacy standards in the country, from going before state voters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101,1493,378,11587,652,5567],"class_list":["post-35543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-california","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-lee-fang","tag-privacy","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35544,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35543\/revisions\/35544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}