California Senate Panel Clears Bills on Location Privacy, 911
Responding to reports that carriers sold customers’ real-time data location, the California Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee cleared AB-523 with no member voting nay at a hearing livestreamed Tuesday. Wireless carriers oppose the bill but want to keep working…
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with author Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D) as the bill moves to the Judiciary Committee, testified CTIA Government Affairs Counsel Steve Carlson. In talks with Irwin, CTIA agreed to an opt-in for customer location information and proposed other tweaks, but the latest amendments “go well beyond what we had hoped and had been discussing with the author,” Carlson said. The Assembly passed AB-523 in May by a wide margin (see 1905290016). Committee members at the hearing also unanimously cleared AB-911 to establish a mechanism for Californians to voluntarily provide vital health and safety information for first responders if 911 is called. The information would be kept confidential. Chairman Ben Hueso (D) supports the concept but shares the American Civil Liberties Union’s concern that the data could be used for racial profiling, he said. Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez (D) hopes to address that issue in the Judiciary Committee.