Data Privacy

California Creatives Rally Behind State AI Rules to Save Their Artwork

04.11.2025

Many creative professionals — including visual artists, writers, actors, singers and musicians — are concerned that companies are feeding existing creative work into data troves and applying generative AI to produce content based on their original work without giving credit or compensation. Creative professionals say their work is being used and monetized without their permission.

consumer reporting

Consumer Reporting Firms Fought for a Year to Exempt Data From California Privacy Law

02.13.2020

By Yuri Nagano

Even though federally regulated consumer reports were already exempted from California’s ambitious new privacy law, the companies that sell them spent much of the last year engaged in an as yet unsuccessful lobbying effort to prevent individuals from opting out of sharing their own data from the firms’ databases. That’s in part because they have diversified beyond consumer reports and credit scores and into the creation of personal profiles based on online information that is less well regulated and critics of the industry call intrusive.

New State Law Pits Privacy Against Free Speech, Public Records and Data Brokers

07.01.2019

By Yuri Nagano

Though consumers may ask companies to delete or stop collecting data about them, the First Amendment and open-records statutes may thwart their efforts to get people-search sites to delete data after the law takes effect in January. Information brokers argue that the data they post comes from government entities and is publicly available.

Data Privacy

California Attorney General Plans Few Privacy Law Enforcement Actions, Telling Consumers to Take Violators to Court

05.15.2019

By Yuri Nagano

Attorney General Xavier Becerra says his office is ill equipped to prosecute violations of the state’s landmark data-privacy law, which takes effect in January. Only a handful of the most egregious cases will be handled per year. Instead, he wants aggrieved consumers to take violators to court on their own.

City Hall

Writing the Rules on Data Privacy in S.F. Could Disrupt the Disrupters

03.25.2019

By Andrew Stelzer

As city officials this spring craft a ‘privacy-first policy’ mandated by voter-approved Proposition B, supporters hope its lofty ambitions will start to become a reality this summer. Already there are signs that the city could move to the forefront of enforcing limits on data collection and reshaping our relationship with technology companies.

San Francisco Public Press - Independent, Nonprofit, In-Depth Local News

Data Privacy

As local and state government grapple with the rush of technologies that can trample on individual rights on a mass scale, corporations are racing to position themselves as leaders in the field, and lobbying for exemptions from public accountability.

Technology

California Creatives Rally Behind State AI Rules to Save Their Artwork

By Yuri Nagano

consumer reporting

Consumer Reporting Firms Fought for a Year to Exempt Data From California Privacy Law

By Yuri Nagano

Data Privacy

New State Law Pits Privacy Against Free Speech, Public Records and Data Brokers

By Yuri Nagano

Data Privacy

California Attorney General Plans Few Privacy Law Enforcement Actions, Telling Consumers to Take Violators to Court

By Yuri Nagano