Calif. Equity, Data Bills Clear Floor Votes

California digital equity and data broker bills passed in their origin chambers Wednesday. The Assembly voted 48-18 for AB-41, which aims to tighten digital equity requirements in the state’s video franchise law (see 2304200044). The Senate voted 32-8 for SB-362, which would allow consumers to delete data brokers collected on them. The bill would also transfer a data broker registry to the California Privacy Protection Agency from the state Justice Department. “We are one step closer to finally giving consumers the power to control who accesses their most sensitive personal information,” said the data bill’s author, Sen. Josh Becker (D). The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse applauded Senate passage in the same news release.