Does this mean Uber and Lyft will now be obliged to provide riders in California who request their personal data with a list of all the passenger ratings drivers give them after each ride? “Yes, they have to come back with the specific pieces of personal information,” said Mary Stone Ross, a technology consultant who helped write the ballot initiative that led California to enact the law. “So if they’re collecting that, your sleep information, they have to respond with it.”The California law’s definition of “selling” personal information includes sharing it for nonmonetary compensation. And the law requires companies “selling” personal information to give consumers the choice to opt out of having their data sold or shared for commercial gain. The law gives employees in the state some new rights related to the data their employers collect about them.

Source: New York Times December 13, 2019 13:52 UTC