On November 4, 2020, the YES on Prop 24 campaign announced the passage of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), with a majority of Californians supporting the measure to strengthen consumer privacy rights. The new law aims to give Californians the strongest online privacy rights in the world, including protecting sensitive personal information, tripling fines against companies that violate kids' data, establishing an enforcement arm for consumers, and making it harder to weaken privacy laws in the future.
But, does the CPRA do enough to advance the data privacy of California consumers? Many security and privacy leaders argue that it does not. Instead, they think, it is a mixed bag of partial steps backwards and forwards. To find out more, we talk to David Bodnick, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Startpage, a private search engine.