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Monday, February 22, 2021 In late January, California’s Attorney General (AG) tweeted about the use of the new Global Privacy Control (GPC), informing California consumers that on certain browsers they can use GPC as a “stop selling my data switch” to exercise their right to opt out of the sale of their personal information (PI) in one step – rather than on an individual site basis. As the GPC is not yet a finalized standard, it remains uncertain as to when the AG’s office will begin enforcing the GPC, but the tweet provides some insight into how the OAG views this issue. ....
The feature is based on Client-Side Storage Partitioning, a new standard currently being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium s Privacy Community Group. Network Partitioning is highly technical, but to simplify it somewhat; your browser has many ways it can save data from websites, not just via cookies, privacy researcher Zach Edwards told ZDNet in an interview this week. These other storage mechanisms include the HTTP cache, image cache, favicon cache, font cache, CORS-preflight cache, and a variety of other caches and storage mechanisms that can be used to track people across websites. Edwards says all these data storage systems are shared among websites. ....
Now it goes to the senate for consideration but it s really on a tight timeline for passage next week. the senior house democrat on the intelligence committee adam schiff latched onto the president s tweets, trying that failing to postpone today s vot vote. i think the better course would be for us to defer consideration, give us more time to address the issues that have been raised by the privacy community, but also within the administration about its inaccurate, conflicting, and confusing statements on the morning of debate. the president s tweets took aim at this controversial program which reporters say is a critical tool for intelligence gathering. this program does acquire foreign intelligence information and minimizes the identities of americans who show up in those records. ....