California “Right to Know” Act Would Reveal What Companies Have Your Personal Data

[varelse]

A new proposal in California, supported by a diverse coalition including EFF and the ACLU of Northern California, is fighting to bring transparency and access to the seedy underbelly of digital data exchanges. The Right to Know Act (AB 1291) would require a company to give users access to the personal data the company has stored on them—as well as a list of all the other companies with whom that original company has shared the users' personal data—when a user requests it. It would cover California residents and would apply to both offline and online companies.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/...let-consumers-find-out-who-has-their-personal


Is this even enforceable, if passed?

 

[Mr. H.]

There's no transparency and access to the seedy underbelly of Obama and his administration, yet we fret over this bullshit?

You use Facebook? Then you clicked "agree" on the user agreement.

How many pages-long user agreements have we blindly "agreed" to over the years?

And exactly what is the merit of this proposal? What is its usefulness?