Tell Governor Newsom: Make it Easier to Use Your Privacy Rights

A.B. 566 does a very simple thing. It directs browsers—such as Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, Microsoft’s Edge or Mozilla’s Firefox—to give all their users the option to tell companies they don't want companies to to sell or share personal information about them that’s collected on the internet. In other words: it makes it easy to for Californians to tell companies what they want to happen with their own information.

By making it easy to use tools that allow you to send these sorts of signals to companies’ websites, A.B. 566 makes the California Consumer Privacy Act more user-friendly. And the easier it is to exercise your rights, the more power you have.

Companies have not made it easy to exercise our rights. Right now, someone who wants to make these requests has to go through the processes set up by each company that may collect their information individually. Giving people the option for an easier way to communicate how they want companies to treat their personal information helps rebalance the often-lopsided relationship between the two. If you think Californians should have easy tools to tell companies how to deal with their information, let Gov. Newsom know he should sign this bill.