


Take it out of his hands?Īs for Becerra himself, he said in a statement that the law was “game-changing and historic,” arguing that it “gives consumers choice and control over personal information in the marketplace.”

There is some good news: efforts to significantly narrow the definition of “personal information” have been rejected and will remain the same as under current law (Civil Code § 1798.140(o) if you want to know) – and that is broad.Īnd despite concerted efforts by tech giants to water down the law in Sacramento, it passed largely unscathed and nothing in the attorney general’s rules appear to backtrack on that, even if the deliberate failure to define things opens up many legal loopholes.
