CFC supports AB 25 (Campos), which would extend social media privacy provisions to public sector applicants and employees.

One of the biggest concerns with smartphones in medical care is the potential breach of confidentiality. CFC supports AB 658 (Calderon), which closes the medical-app privacy loophole.

AB 1291 (Lowenthal) would require a company to give users access to personal data the company has on them, and a list of companies the users' personal data was shared with.

CFC is sponsoring SB 383 (Jackson) to restore privacy protection for online credit card purchases, which was recently eliminated by a bad California Supreme Court decision.

Under California law, genetic snooping is perfectly legal. Now, legislators are considering a bill that would require a donor's consent to collect, analyze or share genetic information.

Online merchants are now free to use information to build customer profiles for marketing or for sale to third parties who may use this information for any purpose.

Assemblymember Bonnie Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) has announced that the California Right to Know Act (AB 1291) will not be voted on this year but she will keep working to pass it next year.

In California, with the highest unemployment rate, Republican Jeff Gorell and Democrat Steven Bradford presented a privacy bill that guards against drone surveillance, but they are pushing a bill to provide tax breaks to drone manufacturers.