3 ways California is leading the country in digital rights

In the past, California has exerted something like a gravitational pull on the rest of the United States; in both legislation and civil liberties, where the Golden State goes — with its 12 percent of the U.S. population and 14 percent of the country's GDP — the U.S. has often followed. Digital rights advocates can (and should) hope that it continues with our electronic freedoms.

On Friday, California passed a sweeping consumer privacy bill that provides the strongest protection of consumer data in the U.S. Some are even describing it as California's own GDPR, the European data protection legislation that went into effect in the E.U. at the end of May. Read more...