To the California Privacy Protection Agency: Listen to voters and protect our privacy
Our privacy rights in California are at a crossroads. To continue leading the country in consumer and worker protections, we must ensure that AI and other technologies don’t come at the expense of everyday people’s rights and safety.
In 2020, California voters passed Proposition 24, a measure that expanded the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to ensure that their privacy is protected and, specifically, that their personal information can’t be taken without their consent and then used against them. The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) began a rulemaking process to implement these updates, particularly regarding how data is collected and used in algorithmic systems and AI.
We’re seeing a concerted effort to undermine this rulemaking. Tech executives and other business leaders are pressuring the CPPA to scrap this safety blueprint and rewrite the rules to prioritize corporate interests over people’s well-being.
TechEquity joined organizations, including the ACLU California Action, California Federation of Labor Unions, SAG-AFTRA, SEIU California, Writers Guild of America West, and more, in an open letter expressing our deep concern about recent pressure on the CPPA to abandon or significantly scale back its current CCPA rulemaking process. You can read the full letter below:
