---
date: '2018-06-23'
title: 'Bill promises Californians more control over their data'
description: "the bill would allow California residents to find out what information businesses and data brokers collect about them, where that information comes from, and how it's shared. It would give people the power to ask for their data to be deleted and to order businesses to stop selling their personal information. It places limits on selling data on users younger than 16 years of age, and prohibits businesses from denying service to users for exercising their rights under the bill."
draft: false
tags: ['politics', 'privacy']
---

**[Wired:](https://www.wired.com/story/new-privacy-bill-could-give-californians-unprecedented-control-over-data)**

> ... the bill would allow California residents to find out what information businesses and data brokers collect about them, where that information comes from, and how it's shared. It would give people the power to ask for their data to be deleted and to order businesses to stop selling their personal information. It places limits on selling data on users younger than 16 years of age, and prohibits businesses from denying service to users for exercising their rights under the bill.

I love the sound of this — hopefully it's not derailed like California's net neutrality bill was.<!-- excerpt -->
