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by whyage 252 days ago
Many thanks, CA lawmakers. Now let's hope it works as intended and that the inevitable loopholes are plugged as soon as they're found.
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Excellent news, but also: Let's see the penalties, and let's see the vigorous enforcement. If this doesn't have teeth, it'll be pointless. Let's see a serious fine that puts a scumbag company out of business.
It won't have teeth because politicians want to skim off the top.
I really don’t like this kind of cynicism. You could use the same argument to say California will never pass a bill to enable universal opt out, which they did.
In California, I know elected officials who get paid 4 figure salaries to manage 9 figure budgets.

If you think they're not skimming off the top, then you don't know what they are.

Minimum wage for one adult with one child in California is $16.50/hr: https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/06

Assuming part time work (approximately one day every two weeks) at 10% of the yearly ~2000hr worked per year that equates to about $3300 per year, which seems sensible to me.

If by one day, you mean one day and night, since elected officials make all the important decisions at 3 a.m. When you give someone the job of managing billions of dollars of resources and pay them less money per year than their mortgage costs each month, what do you think they're going to do? Be a hero who protects the people from corporations? That's what everyone on this site seems to think politicians do. But the people don't pay them anything. So what makes you think they're looking after you, and not themselves? The only way they can survive is by feeding off the public. Unlike corporations, they do it through force and involuntary exchange.
> Now let's hope it works as intended

I predict another popup to close on every damn website.

They already thought of that.

> Businesses must wait at least 12 months before asking you to opt back in to the sale or sharing of your personal information.

https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#sectionb

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but even if each business can only ask you once a year, couldn't that still result in most individual sites implementing a nag?
Do you authorise us to circumvent California’s privacy law for your own good?

YES or YES ?