Californians’ data should not be for sale
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Come 1st January 2020, a new consumer data privacy regulation will kick into force in the U.S. Yet, we think that the California Consumer Privacy Act doesn’t go far enough to protect user privacy.
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Tatsuki thanks for your work and interest.
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The CCPA is a great step forward for California although not as effective as the GDPR.
Hopefully the rest of world will catch up soon as nobody's data should be for sale. -
The GDPR is fine, what is really annoying are these damn pop-ups that ask to accept cookies, if I want to see the page, which now appears on all pages.
This is why I use this extension -
@Catweazle I'll take your word on that.
Here in Canada we have almost nothing to protect users data. Even a CCPA type would be a big step forward. -
@greybeard: Agreed! We, in Canada, are so far behind in on-line data protection. Very sad, indeed.
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Unfortunately here in Australia it is a free-for all. There is a naive belief by our Government that allowing promiscuous data handling of our personal data on-line and with our Government services will somehow give us a cutting edge digital economy.
Our government has just centralized all our financial, health, census, transport, legal and social data as well as taking our facial recognition data from our driving licenses. It can be used by any of 18 government agency s. Ironically it is called Open Government. We are just one software module away from the “Social Credit System”.
When I see the home of Silicon Valley begin to take on data protection as an issue I lament at the mindset in our country.G
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It is important to note that CCPA is not a federal-level regulation. Rather, it is at the state level (California). (I live in Washington state--I wish it were at the federal level!)
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@zczc
Hi, it is the same in Scandinavia but there they trust there government.
In Germany all is seperate and you have a plastic card for everything, I have 10 or so.
In Sweden you have one card for all.
I think it is different if a company have this or my Government.
It can me misused, but that´s the way with everything.Cheers, mib
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