Re: Consumer Watchdog Calls On Gov. Brown To Sign 'Do Not Track' Legislation, But Cautions Law Is Only A Step Towards Knowledge, Not Full Consumer Power

What's fascinating is that the moment an 'operator of a website or service' tries to comply with this law and they elect to say that they 'DO honor DNT: 1 headers from browsers'… that opens them up to a situation where they may, in fact, have to prove that to the California State Attorney General. The alternative is to go on the 'shame' list and say that you do NOT honor DNT signals.

Either way CA just essentially forced every web site to update their Privacy Policy's, and if they do support DNT then also open themselves up to proving that they do. Better Privacy through Transparency - and that's a good thing.


Peter
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From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joe@cdt.org<mailto:joe@cdt.org>>
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 5:19 AM
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Subject: Re: Consumer Watchdog Calls On Gov. Brown To Sign 'Do Not Track' Legislation, But Cautions Law Is Only A Step Towards Knowledge, Not Full Consumer Power

When folks take a minute to read the bill text, it's definitely better characterized as a "do not track transparency" bill:

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml;jsessionid=4a3ff3d45dd6836ef40ab918b267

best, Joe

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Senior Staff Technologist
Center for Democracy & Technology
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On Aug 27, 2013, at 19:11, Kevin Kiley <kevin.kiley@3pmobile.com<mailto:kevin.kiley@3pmobile.com>> wrote:

>> http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/prnewswire/press_releases/California/2013/08/27/DC69861?r=full
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>> 71 - 0

That article actually misreports the final vote yesterday in the California Assembly.

It was actually 78-0 in favor of this "Do Not Track" legislation.

That makes all the floor votes on this "Do Not Track" Bill *unanimous* from
the first time it was voted on in the Assembly ( 73-0 ) to the recent Senate
floor vote ( 37-0 ) and now the final approval of amendments added by
the Senate by the originating house ( 78-0 ).

>From 'soup to nuts'... every lawmaker has voted 'Yes' to this "Do Not Track"
legislation, and it is now on the Governor's desk ( and he has already said he
is ready to sign it into LAW ).

>From the official legislation tracking site...

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_370&sess=CUR&house=A&search_type=bill_update

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DATE: 05/02/2013
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY - FLOOR
MOTION: AB 370 MURATSUCHI  Assembly Third Reading
(AYES: 73. NOES: 0. Absent, Vacancy, Abstaining or Not Voting: 7 )  (PASS)

DATE: 08/22/2013
LOCATION: SENATE - FLOOR
MOTION: Assembly 3rd Reading AB370 Muratsuchi By Padilla
(AYES  37. NOES: 0. Absent, Vacancy, Abstaining or Not Voting: 3 )  (PASS)

DATE: 08/26/2013
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY FLOOR
MOTION: AB 370 MURATSUCHI  Concurrence in Senate Amendments
(AYES  78. NOES: 0. Absent, Vacancy, Abstaining or Not Voting: 2 )  (PASS)

Bill sent to Governor for signature 08/26/13.

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