Data companies have found hiding mandatory privacy pages


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Participants in the Dreamforce Conference, the largest AI event in the world according to its host, Salesforce, in San Francisco on September 18, 2024. Photo from Florence Middleton for CalMatters

For users who request their personal data, detected by data mediation companies, the removal of your information is not always a clear reduction – despite the state law that aims to help with it.

As tranquility and marking Colin Leher and You take the apodaca Explain that California requires companies that make the bigger part of their money from selling user data to provide customers with a way to request their data to be deleted.

But among the largest database of the country of nearly 500 data brokers, Colin and Thomas found that this 35 companies had a code that hid its deletion instructions from displaying in Google searches.

Telesign, for example, who advertises services to prevent business fraud, bury the link to his “deletion of data” and “refuse / don’t sell” form about 7,000 words deep in their confidentiality policy, destroyed for a legal one. This form is also hidden from search engines and is not connected to your homepage.

To help the Californians defend their confidentiality, MPs in 2023 have adopted the Delete Act, which established the creation of the “deletion and refusal platform”. At the beginning of 2026, Drop will allow users to send a one -time request to the register data brokers to delete their data.

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Talking about technology: Last week, governor Gavin Newsom presented a partnership between some of the best companies in the technology industry and the community system in California.

As the use of artificial intelligence is distributed, AI training has become vital to remain competitive in the technological work market. Google, Microsoft, Adobe and IBM plan to work with public colleges in the Community to unleash AI teacher training and provide students with exceptional versions of some of their AI technologies.

However, a concern among some education experts is whether teachers can lose control of how AI is used in their classrooms. Read more by Calmatters’ Adam EchelmanS


Calletatters events: Join us on September 17, Calmatters’ Alejandro Lazo It will be a panel of how California can cope with the challenges of clean energy, as President Trump and Republicans in Congress are demanding that they return climate policies. The speakers include Senator Scott Wiener, carbohydrate chairman Lian Randolph and CA FWD CEO Kate Gordon. Sign up here To be present in person in San Francisco or practically.



CA may be on the pg & e loan hook

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Pacific gas and Diablo Canyon power plant near Avila Beach

To maintain the last nuclear power plant in California, the Newsom Administration in 2022 successfully demanded a $ 1.4 billion loan from the legislature in 2022, but while MP Malena Carolo He found that almost half may not be paid.

Diablo Canyon is managed by Pacific Gas and Electric and provides approximately 8% of the total energy of the country. Although this year would be closed for economic reasons, government regulators voted to extend their operations until 2030.

While seeking approval for the loan, the Newsom Administration said a federal program from the US Department of Energy will pay for the loan. But by law, the ministry could only award $ 1.2 billion in each cycle, and PG & E applied for a $ 1.1 billion loan, which is ashamed of this maximum. The utility company is also unlikely to use the factory profits to compensate for the difference, as PG & E said it expects its costs for the plant to exceed the loan.

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Ca CongressMember faces the voters’ anger

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US Representative Doug Lamalfa during a City Hall meeting in Chico Elks Lodge on August 11, 2025. A photo from Salvador Ochoa for Calmatters

GOP leaders in recent months have discouraged Republicans In the House of US Representatives, hosting forums face-to-face, after a series of confrontations of the mayoralty became viral earlier this year. But reporter Doug Lamalfa, which is parts of the village north in California, anyway, held one – anyway – And was about as tumultuous as a person would expectS

More than 650 people attended the Lamalfa City Hall in Chico on Monday, Calmatters’ reports Maya K. MillerS For about 90 minutes, the crowd intervened, whistled and held the congress, struck by the vote of the Lamalfa for the budget bill of President Donald Trump. Medicaid’s budget consumption with more than $ 1.1 trillion over the next 10 years, a move that will hurt rural hospitals and people, the crowd said.

During the event, Navy veteran Ryan Rogoski told Lamalfa that he had to drive a three -hour round trip to see the PTSR therapist due to the lack of mental health suppliers in the Chico area. Although Lamalfa acknowledged that Rogoski’s situation was unacceptable, Lamalfa accused the local leadership of Chico VA for bad governance.

Rogoski left the meeting through tears, and later told Calmatters that Lamalfa’s answer was “extremely incorrect.”

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And last: less talkative legislators of CA 🤫

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Kate Sanchez Kate Sanchez on the Assembly floor during a session in Capitol in Sacramento on June 30, 2025. Photo of Miguel Gutierrez -Jr., CalMatters

California’s average legislator has been talking more than six hours since the start of the legislative session. But eight legislators stand out that they are far greater than the rest. Find out Who are from Calmatters’ Ryan Sabalow and Omar RashadS



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