Getting compliant with California's new data privacy law will take IT just as much as HR.

On Sept. 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 587, which requires social media companies to publicly post their content moderation policies

The first-in-the-nation legislation imposes sweeping restrictions on Internet companies that serve minors, requiring that they design their platforms with “well-being” in mind and barring eight common data-collection practices.

We used the California Consumer Privacy Act to see what information the controversial facial recognition company has collected on me.

Very good summary of what PII is.

The California Privacy Rights Act comes into effect Jan. 1, 2023. But there's a 'look-back' provision on data collection that comes into effect Jan 1., 2022.

Updated as of AUGUST 2021

Strengthening the state’s landmark privacy regulation

After more than two years of negotiations, in March 2021 the University of California announced a transformative open access agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. This successful outcome is the result of UC’s faculty, librarians and university leadership coming together to stand firm on the goals of making UC research freely available to all and transforming scholarly communication for the better. The four-year agreement goes into effect on April 1, 2021, restoring UC’s direct online access to Elsevier journals while accomplishing the university’s two goals for all publisher agreements: (1)   Enabling universal open access to all UC […]

New laws bar efforts to trick consumers into handing over data or money.

Prop 24, which will change California's current data privacy law, received firm support in the Golden State this week, likely sailing into passage.

"Data-Driven Thinking" is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Leigh Freund, president and CEO at the Network Advertising Initiative. Uncertainty has clouded preparations for compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ever since the law passed in 2018. Even... Continue reading »

Many privacy advocates oppose Prop 24, which would buttress consumer privacy.

The expiration of the University of California’s contract with a major publisher of scientific and medical research may have had less impact than expected, UC librarians and researchers said.

Return to table reflects ongoing string of advances for open science movement

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) takes effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA aims to provide consumers with an unprecedented array of rights

The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It’s a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.