Breitbart:
In a display of unapologetic defiance, Silicon Valley giants including Facebook and Uber are planning to ignore new California laws scheduled to take effect in 2020, laying the groundwork for a collision course between the tech giants and state lawmakers.
Facebook recently told advertisers it won’t make changes to its web-tracking services to comply with California’s new consumer-privacy law, which starts Jan. 1 and is expected to impact numerous social media companies, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.
The law will require companies to alert consumers if their personal information is being collected and sold, and to give consumers the ability to opt out of the sale of their data.
Facebook is claiming that routine data transfers may not fit the state’s definition of “selling” data, according to the report.
Internet companies — including the major social networks and search engines — routinely gather user information and share them, usually without disclosing these actions to consumers.
The non-profit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation recently released a new study showing that many popular sites share the user data they collect with third-party businesses, including data brokers, advertisers, and government bodies.
Uber is planning to flout a different California law that would reclassify its army of drivers from contractors to employees, potentially entitling them to benefits and perks. The ridesharing company is joining forces with Lyft and Doordash to mount a $90 million counteroffensive against the new law, which also takes effect January. read more
My data is mine and they should pay me for it.
That is why I stay off social media.
You can now pick up and eat road kill. If you call up and get a permit! Yeah. They’re that stupid.
I’m torn between the fact that there is already too many laws, and the intrusion into our privacy by companies selling our personal information. There are no good guys in that fight.
joe6pak
Hundreds of new laws go into effect in 2020. If you think you’re free you must be related to AOC.
“Where you find the laws so numerous
is where you find the greatest injustices”
Arsesarailious, student of Plato. 300 B.C.
Nothing new under the sun…
They apparently don’t understand. If you are an American citizen with a job, the laws in California apply to you good and hard.
If you don’t pay for the product you ARE the product…
aint nothin’ free?
“Facebook and Others Plan to Defy New California Laws ”
Funny, us gun owners have been doing the same thing for about 15 years.
The DMV and Medicare/aid sell your info. Why is that okay?
I’m more concerned about the state forcing companies to stop using subcontractors and start classifying them as employees. That would put me out of business today. It’s just too expensive to have employees. Subcontract labor is the only way that small businesses like mine can continue to function. We do not have the income to pay for benefits and workers comp. What it boils down to, it’s an effective way for large businesses to kill any mom and pop upstarts from coming in and creating a pathway to economic development. It’s all about the government choosing winners and losers. Control.
So in looking into how to control/manage my own data, I found an app (one of many, I’m sure, but this is the one *I* liked and chose, your mileage may vary) called #My31. You register (of course) and obtain title to your personal data. Once they get enough people registered, they notify the industry that wants to use data — starting with healthcare — and eventually, hypothetically, you start to get paid when someone wants to use your data. Their website has more info on interim steps and achieving critical mass to be able to make demands about controlling our own data.
A quote from their site: “Everything we do increasingly is collected as data. We each produce a digital data trail daily. We want to ensure you have a choice of how data sets impact your life and your community.”
Here’s their sharing link:
I just claimed my 31st human right and joined the data property rights movement. Download the #My31 app to see what it’s all about.
Use my referral link https://join.hu-manity.co/Rf4H7NPhM2
Or don’t use my referral for the app but check it out for yourself at https://hu-manity.org.
I thought the concept had merit. I can’t claw the data back but, dammit, it’s mine and if you’re going to use it, I’d ought to at least get asked or maybe even paid for it.
@Mohammed’s pink swastika December 27, 2019 at 9:59 pm
> the state forcing companies to stop using subcontractors and start classifying them as employees
There has ALWAYS been, and (until Universal Communalism succeeds, and there is only The State) must ALWAYS be, easy, obvious, unlegislated ways, to divide work.
> It’s all about the government choosing winners and losers. Control.
Not, merely, “the government”. “Hiring”, “subcontracting”, “agency”, are ALL about standing between the work and the pay, and saying “Where’s MINE?”. With a gun. Always, with a gun.