Operating systems and applications: privacy settings.

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Operating systems and applications: privacy settings.

AB 2561, as amended, Valencia.

What This Bill Does

• AB 2561, as amended, Valencia.
• Operating systems and applications: privacy settings.
• Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information that is collected or sold by a business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information about the consumer to third parties not to sell or share the consumer’s personal information, as specified.
• Existing law, beginning January 1, 2027, prohibits a business from developing or maintaining a browser, as defined, that does not include functionality configurable by a consumer that enables the browser to send an opt-out preference signal, as defined, to businesses with which the consumer interacts through the browser, as prescribed.

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Official Summary Text

AB 2561, as amended, Valencia.
Operating systems and applications: privacy settings.
Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information that is collected or sold by a business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information about the consumer to third parties not to sell or share the consumer’s personal information, as specified.
Existing law, beginning January 1, 2027, prohibits a business from developing or maintaining a browser, as defined, that does not include functionality configurable by a consumer that enables the browser to send an opt-out preference signal, as defined, to businesses with which the consumer interacts through the browser, as prescribed.
This bill would
require an operating system or an application to configure a user’s default privacy
setting to be the most privacy protective setting offered by the operating system or application and would
prohibit an operating system or an application from
changing
undoing a user’s affirmative configuration of
a user’s privacy setting without the user’s
explicit
consent.
The bill would define “privacy setting” to mean any user-configurable option within an application’s privacy, or similarly labeled, menu that governs the application’s collection, use, sharing, disclosure, retention, or processing of the user’s personal information.

Current Bill Text

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