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The ad surveillance economy serves up everything to untold numbers of customers, your retail habits, health concerns, even citizenship status.
But January 1st, Californians can go to a state-run website and demand 500-plus data brokers registered there delete most of the personal information they have on you later this year.
The DeleteX author State Senator Josh Becker says this won't end ad surveillance, but it's a start.
His next concern that Congress might try to override the new law with weaker federal standards.
And if it's possible for 40 million Californians to delete their information, then it should be possible for 300 million other people in the rest of this country to do it.
The federal complaint argues San Francisco is feeding a surveillance dragnet accessible by federal agencies, including ICE.
Similar lawsuits have been filed against Oakland and San Jose.
If successful, the San Francisco suit could have implications far beyond the city, as license plate reader systems are now used by thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country.
plaintiff's attorney Ramzi Abadou.
In a statement, the chief communications officer for the company that makes the cameras, Flock Safety, wrote the lawsuit seeks to overturn longstanding nationwide legal consensus.
The federal complaint argues San Francisco is feeding a surveillance dragnet accessible by federal agencies, including ICE.
Similar lawsuits have been filed against Oakland and San Jose.
If successful, the San Francisco suit could have implications far beyond the city, as license plate reader systems are now used by thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country.
Plaintiff's attorney, Ramzi Abadou.
In a statement, the chief communications officer for the company that makes the cameras, Flock Safety, wrote the lawsuit seeks to overturn longstanding nationwide legal consensus.
For NPR News, I'm Rachel Miro.
It's ostensibly a win for Silicon Valley companies that lobbied against AI regulation at the federal level, even as they negotiated on numerous regulatory fronts with state lawmakers like Senator Josh Becker of Menlo Park, California.
California's state attorney general's office said it's already on record opposing earlier failed efforts to get an AI regulation banned through Congress and has sued the administration on a variety of fronts 48 times this year alone.