Calif. Senate Passes Bill on Deleting Social Media Accounts and Data
California state senators unanimously supported a bill Tuesday on social media account deletions, which, due to a Senate amendment, also requires platforms to treat such cancellations as California Consumer Privacy Act requests to delete users’ personal information (see 2509050003). The Senate voted 39-0 to pass AB-656. The Assembly next must concur with the Senate's changes to the bill.
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Also, overriding a recently passed deadline for amendments (see 2509080005), the Assembly revised SB-259, which would restrict data from a consumer’s device -- including its current location -- from being used to set prices. The amendment clarifies that information about the state of the hardware could be used to set prices for repairs and maintenance or to calculate a trade-in value for the device.
In addition, the amendment adds a legislative declaration “that cellular broadcast technology is a critical service, especially during a state of emergency, and that this technology is inherently privacy preserving as it does not use personal data, and as a unilateral one-to-many system that does not rely on the geolocation of an individual consumer’s device, is not encompassed by the broadly understood term ‘geolocation’ for purposes of this act.”
California legislators have until Friday night to pass bills and send them to the governor.