The aim of the legislation is to set in place certain requirements for identification documents using contactless integrated circuit or other radio wave approaches created or issued by California-based public entities. It would also set punishments for a person or organization that knowingly or willfully remotely reads or attempts to read the ID without the person’s permission.
The act fits into the state’s right of privacy that’s itself part of the California Constitution. It also plays off the growing identity theft concern roiling through the state and country.