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Assembly hearing urges stronger, enforceable privacy rules as surveillance shifts from episodic to ubiquitous
Summary
Experts at a California State Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee hearing warned that surveillance capitalism and AI-driven inference have outpaced notice-and-consent rules and urged clearer statutory limits, stronger enforcement tools, and more resources for regulators to protect Californians’ constitutional privacy rights.
The California State Assembly’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee convened an informational hearing on commercial and government surveillance, where academics, labor organizers, and investigative reporters urged state lawmakers to strengthen enforceable privacy protections rather than rely on notice-and-consent frameworks.
Nicole Ozer, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law San Francisco, laid out the historical foundation: "The right to privacy is the right to be left alone," she said, tracing California’s constitutional right to privacy to the 1972 amendment (ACA 51) and urging legislators to enact laws that operationalize that constitutional protection for the AI era. Ozer noted judicial decisions in the 1980s and 1990s narrowed remedies for privacy claims…
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