{"id":12927,"date":"2020-05-11T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=12927"},"modified":"2020-08-26T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:55:10","slug":"does-californias-privacy-and-consumer-protection-committee-actually-care-about-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/does-californias-privacy-and-consumer-protection-committee-actually-care-about-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Does California’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee actually care about privacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee of the California Assembly is supposed to have an obvious, eponymous purpose \u2013 but doesn\u2019t seem to. There\u2019s a new \u201conline privacy\u201d bill in the California legislature that is seeking to grossly normalize facial recognition technology and it just received an 8-3 vote to continue from the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. The bill, AB2261, was put forth by Democratic Assemblymember Ed Chau of California\u2019s San Gabriel Valley \u2013 who also conveniently sits as the chair of the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. Said committee, whose name might suggest is looking out to protect consumer privacy, has proven to be anything but.<\/p>\n

In a joint campaign called \u201cProtect Our Privacy<\/a>,\u201d the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) and ACLU\u2019s California chapter (ACLU-CA) teamed up to lobby against the dangerous facial recognition bill that flouts online privacy at nearly every step. They warned:<\/p>\n

\u201cAB 2261 would create a world where your daily life could be continuously tracked by facial recognition systems, and you could be turned away from healthcare, businesses, housing, and employment opportunities \u2013 based solely on a scan of your face.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While this bill made it through the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee \u2013 many others that actually do take privacy and consumer protection into consideration have not even been granted a hearing. Which begs some to question: is there something wrong with the Committee?<\/p>\n

AB 2261 moves forward despite strong opposition to its weak privacy considerations<\/h2>\n

AB 2261<\/a> had a long list of detractors \u2013 including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the California State Sheriff\u2019s Association (CSSA) \u2013 suffice to say, these two organizations rarely find themselves on the same side of any legislation. Those two relatively well known organizations were joined by many more civil liberties organizations. In contrast, the list of companies that formally threw in their support of AB2261 consisted of just one company that everyone has heard of: Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Those that have been following the development of facial recognition technology around the world<\/a>, and the laws (or lack thereof) that govern it have been raising alarms<\/a> about the danger for a while now. The same \u201cProtect Our Privacy\u201d campaign spelled out the dangers facial recognition technology presents to our safety as citizens:<\/p>\n

\u201cFacial recognition will not make us safer. This dangerous technology is built on the back of a racist criminal justice system. Law enforcement is already using facial recognition to target people of color, while ICE uses it to deport our loved ones. Facial recognition is also used to oppress religious minorities and discourage free expression.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How does such a bill make it through the only committee that is supposed to protect consumer privacy?<\/p>\n

The Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee doesn\u2019t seem to have its priorities straight<\/h2>\n

While AB 2261 has made it through committee, with the help of the deep pockets of Microsoft, many other bills that actually do protect privacy have died in that same committee. AB 3119<\/a> would have strengthened California\u2019s now well known Consumer Privacy Act by regulating the sharing of private information between companies \u2013 not just the selling of it. Examples of private information being shared and not sold include Zoom\u2019s recent fiasco with sharing information to Facebook through its mobile app. Another bill, AB 3212<\/a>, would have required social media companies to obtain parental permission before selling the information of the many minors using their platforms and enjoyed strong support from the Children\u2019s Advocacy Institute.<\/p>\n

These bills weren\u2019t even granted a hearing by the committee. When asked why, Chau stated that he was trying to optimize for pandemic related bills. Instead, other bills have passed which do things like enable restaurants to get information from delivery services such as DoorDash or enable scooter ride share companies to share the information gathered from those using their services. The Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee doesn\u2019t seem to have privacy or consumer protection as its guiding star \u2013 but instead looks elsewhere to determine what privacy bills are worth consideration. As John Diaz of the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> wrote<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about the influence of money in politics \u2014 and it is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Featured image by David Monniaux<\/a> shared via CC By 3.0 license<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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