Figueroa's anti-Gmail bill
As noted in a previous entry, CA State Senator Liz Figueroa (D - 10th District) believes that Google's Gmail is crossing a line in terms of customer/citizen privacy. A draft of her proposed legislation is now available on her website. It looks as though SB 1822 orginally dealt with the public display of Social Security numbers and added liability against sellers of SSNs if damages (perhaps from ... identity theft?) result from the sale. Everything having to do with SSNs has been striken from the amended bill. Obviously, I didn't pay enough attention in "State Government" class lo so many years ago ... why didn't she just draft a new bill from scratch? Or if she didn't want to have too many irons in the fire, why not withdraw/table SB 1822 and put in the fresh bill?
Thanks to Chris Sprigman of Stanford Law's CIS for keeping up on this in his blog.