CaliforniaCalifornia Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: opt-out preference signal.
What it does
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information that is collected or sold by a business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information about the consumer to third parties not to sell or share the consumer's personal information, as specified. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA and establishes the California Privacy Protection Agency and vests the agency with full administrative power, authority, and jurisdiction to enforce the CCPA.
More detail
This bill would, beginning January 1, 2027, prohibit a business from developing or maintaining a browser, as defined, that does not include functionality configurable by a consumer that enables the browser to send an opt-out preference signal, as defined, to businesses with which the consumer interacts through the browser, as prescribed. The bill would require a business that develops or maintains a browser to make clear to a consumer in its public disclosures how the opt-out preference signal works and the intended effect of the opt-out preference signal. The bill would grant a business that develops or maintains a browser that includes this functionality immunity from liability for a violation of those provisions by a business that receives the opt-out preference signal. The bill would authorize the agency to adopt regulations as necessary to implement and administer those provisions.
This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Oct 8Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 465, Statutes of 2025.Latest
- Oct 8Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 23Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.To Governor
- Sep 11Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 3. Page 3294.).Major
- Vote recorded AB 566 Lowenthal Concurrence in Senate Amendments. Result: pass.Lower
- Sep 10In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB566 Lowenthal et al. By Stern. Result: pass.Upper
- Sep 10Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 2812.).Passed Senate
- Sep 8Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Sep 5Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.Major
- Jul 15Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Jul 14From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.Minor
- Jul 2From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Jul 1
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 18Referred to Com. on JUD.Minor
- Jun 9In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Jun 6
- Vote recorded AB 566 Lowenthal Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 5Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 1. Page 2114.)Passed Assembly
- Jun 2Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1951.)Major
- Apr 24Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Apr 23From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 23).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 9Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 8Read second time and amended.Major
- Apr 7From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 1).Major
- Apr 1
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 14In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Feb 24Referred to Com. on P. & C.P.Minor
- Feb 13From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
- Feb 12Read first time. To print.Introduced