Lobbyists, business-community members and privacy advocates listen during a meeting Tuesday on public comments on the California Consumer Privacy Act at the California Department of Public Health Services building in Sacramento. The fight between regulation-wary businesses and privacy watchdogs centers on the Golden State’s first-in-the-nation online privacy rules, known as the California Consumer Privacy Act. The California privacy law “is the floor, not the ceiling,” said Jim Steyer, the founder of Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that has advocated privacy rules nationwide. (Mason Trinca for The Washington Post)But the hasty adoption of California’s 24-page privacy law has left many issues unresolved. But Justin Brookman, the director of consumer privacy and technology at Consumer Reports, lamented the lobbying barrage.

Source: Washington Post February 08, 2019 22:21 UTC