California Data Protection Law AB 779
What Happened?!
Vetoed by the Govinator! Who cares? Everyone wants to report how this is such a horrible travesty. Major media is missing an important aspect of AB 779. The data protection sphere is self-regulating at the moment. Credit card companies have the PCI DSS standard to follow, most of which covers a huge portion of AB 779. Honestly, let’s pull our heads out of the sand.
It’s All Politics
To me it appears that the media is making this a POLITICAL issue. Sure, we can wrap it up into a pretty little identify-theft prevention bundle, but it’s a political message to attempt to make an election issue and the negative effects of a conservative Republican Governor in a largely liberal state.
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