Alastair Mactaggart

Read this in English. ¿QUÉ HARÍA LA PROPUESTA 24? Cambiar la ley de privacidad de datos de California: Al permitirle que les diga a las empresas que limiten el uso de datos sensibles, como su ubicación exacta, información de salud, raza y religión Al prohibir a las empresas que retengan sus datos durante más tiempo […]

California voters will directly decide the fate of 12 ballot propositions on their November ballot — from taxes to rent control, bail to privacy, and more.

Freshman Democrats back impeachment. Advocate proposes privacy bill of rights. Californians urged to 'refrain' from vaping.

San Francisco privacy advocate Alastair Mactaggart is filing a new initiative to create a privacy bill of rights. The initiative could face challenges.

California's landmark data privacy law won't take effect until 2020. In the meantime, lawmakers are fine-tuning it. Here's what to watch.

Defending California's internet privacy law, the plan to tax online sales, the air in Imperial County and Jerry Brown's pension.

California new consumer privacy act should be the baseline for any federal law. The rights of California consumers not only must be protected but expanded to other consumers in our country and around the globe. That’s what I will tell the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation when I testify on Wednesday.

Compromise seemed distant as legislators raced to complete a final report on the issue of wildfire liability by week’s end. Organized labor and trial lawyers clashed.

Why California's new privacy legislation will allow consumers to sue over data breaches by business, but not by government.

California labor worries about the impact of Janus v. AFSCME, but vows to battle on. Privacy initiative funder Alastair Mactaggart agrees to drop his initiative in exchange for broad privacy legislation. Business opposes the bill but sees it as the lesser of two evils.