She's enforcing a fairly long-standing California law, now proposing a new one. Kamala Harris is not my favorite politician but she is very savvy. This is not a matter of lawyers knowing nothing about technology, it's a matter of corporations ignoring the law on privacy, which is not a technological issue.

There are thousands of laws on the books that never get enforced. Some of them are just funny, like the ones you see on the internet that forbid, you know, women from driving in a house coat. Some of them get ignored for good reasons, though, until you get a climber in the AG's position.

I live in California and I like my privacy, as well as having the right to know what information a business maintains on file about me. I supported this law when it was passed and see no reason why mobile apps should be exempted from it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Shine_the_Light_law