California ISP Privacy Bill Up for Senate Vote Friday, Blogs EFF's Falcon

A California bill requiring ISPs to get express consent from consumers to use, disclose and sell personal data (see 1707170052) is heading for a Senate vote Friday, blogged Electronic Frontier Foundation Legislative Counsel Ernesto Falcon. That's the last day of the legislature's session and, if the bill passes, it would be sent to the governor this year, he said. The Senate Rules Committee Chair and Senate Leader Kevin de Leon decided Tuesday to move AB-375, which unanimously passed the Assembly in May, for a vote, among other procedural steps, blogged Falcon. "The bill’s final version continues to mirror the now repealed FCC broadband privacy rule and the bill as it stands now would effectively return power to California consumers over personal data that their ISP obtains from the broadband service," he wrote. "That means your browser history, the applications you use, your location when you use the Internet are firmly controlled by you." A call to confirm the vote with the office of Assemblymember Ed Chau (D), who introduced the bill, wasn't returned.