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Slew of Privacy Bills Will Keep CA Lawyers Busy

By Cheryl Miller
November 02, 2013

When California lawmakers sent a host of online privacy bills to the governor in the final weeks of the session, consumer groups generally reacted with a “ho-hum.”

But with the measures' potential to require a wide range of companies to at least tweak their Internet practices, some attorneys are responding with a pointed “ahem” to their clients.

Bills on the governor's desk address employees' control of social media passwords, data breach notifications and search warrants for electronic communications. Governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign most, if not all, of them. He has already approved so-called “eraser button” legislation allowing minors to retract online posts they come to regret as well as a bill about online tracking.

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