
While U.S. companies focused on the imposition of burdensome data protection laws being implemented overseas, California was hard at work on revamping its own laws. As of June 25, 2018, the home of big technology, Silicon Valley, Facebook, and Google, was prepared to consider the California Consumer Personal Information Disclosure and Sale Initiative (“Initiative”) on the November 2018 ballot. The Initiative sought to enact a version of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, requiring businesses to disclose, on a consumer’s demand, the personal information a business collects, the purpose for which it is used, and to whom it is sold or shared with. The Act also allows individuals to restrict the sharing of their information. Finally, the Act provides a simple path to recovery for violations. Although companies like Facebook and Google dropped their opposition to the Initiative, concerns remained among the business community, so California lawmakers stepped in.
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