California vastly expands digital privacy, will people use it?


The law defines data sales so broadly that it covers almost any information sharing that provides a benefit to business, including data transfers between corporate affiliates and with third party 'data brokers'. — AP

Forty million Californians will soon have sweeping digital-privacy rights stronger than any seen before in the US, posing a significant challenge to Big Tech and the data economy it helped create.

So long as state residents don't mind shouldering much of the burden of exercising those rights, that is.

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