Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Comments on CA AB 2273)

Re:Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Commen... by Alupis on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:45PM (#32667344)

The collection of identifying information for every user on your website is antithetical to the goals of CCPA and anyone that values any resemblance of privacy.

Further, business do not want to be in charge of validating PII information, nor do they want to place roadblocks to casual users. The darn cookies and GDPR popups are already annoying enough. Are we trying to make the web unusable?

This is just insanity, and will lead to a bunch of ecommerce businesses and website companies leaving CA. ie, no one will comply unless they have absolutely zero other choices.

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Re:Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Commen... by zepppotemkin on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:22PM (#32667853)

Where is the need to do that specified in the actual bill? https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

the majority of the bill is restrictions on collecting personal information in general

I'm not sure most ecommerce sites would meet the criteria as something marketed and targeted at children

I agree that 'likely visited by children' is nebulous but this seems to be heavily aimed at live streaming/recording services(twitch, tiktok .. etc), large public social forums (discord) and things like youtube kids

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Re:Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Commen... by Alupis on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:39PM (#32668058)

It's spelled out everywhere in the bill. They make it so scary to serve content to children (knowingly or not, since it's so vaguely defined) that you'll either have to A) Verify age (which requires identity) or B) Lock it down for everyone.

Making a person/business predict someone's age over the internet is just absurd... and fallible... so you will have verify identity.

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