Oct 15, 2020   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

Yes On Prop 24 Campaign Announces Endorsement From Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Yes on Prop 24 campaign announced an important endorsement from Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf in support of the measure to strengthen consumer privacy.

"The need for stronger privacy laws becomes clearer every day with the world's largest corporations collecting and sharing more and more of our private information and that of our kids," said Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. "That's why I'm asking California voters to join me in voting YES on Prop 24, to strengthen privacy laws and to help protect our personal data."

Proposition 24 would: 

    1. Protect your most personal information, by allowing you to prevent
       businesses from using or sharing sensitive information about your health,
       finances, race, ethnicity, and precise location;
    2. Safeguard young people, TRIPLING FINES for violations involving
       children's information;
    3. Put new limits on companies' collection and use of our personal
       information;
    4. Establish an enforcement arm--the California Privacy Protection
       Agency--to defend these rights and hold companies accountable, and extend
       enforcement including IMPOSING PENALTIES FOR NEGLIGENCE resulting in
       theft of consumers' emails and passwords;
    5. MAKE IT MUCH HARDER TO WEAKEN PRIVACY in California in the future, by
       preventing special interests and politicians from undermining
       Californians' privacy rights, while allowing the Legislature to amend the
       law to further the primary goal of strengthening consumer privacy to
       better protect you and your children, such as opt-in for use of data,
       further protections for uniquely vulnerable minors, and greater power for
       individuals to hold violators accountable.

Yes on 24 Supporters
The Yes on Prop 24 campaign is proud to have the endorsement of former Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, Los Angeles Times editorial board, Congressman Ro Khanna, California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, California State Controller Betty Yee, Common Sense Media, Consumer Watchdog, AFSCME California, the NAACP of California, California Professional Firefighters, California State Building and Construction Trades Council, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 21 (Bay Area), UA Local 38 Plumbers and Pipefitters, California State Senators Ben Allen, Bill Dodd, Lena Gonzalez, Connie Leyva, Bill Monning, Nancy Skinner, Robert Hertzberg, Scott Wiener, Bob Wieckowski and Jim Beall, California State Assembly members Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and David Chiu, John Burton, Former Chair of the California Democratic Party, Alex Rooker and Daraka Larimore Hall, Vice Chairs of the California Democratic Party, Dan Weitzman, Controller of the California Democratic Party, Jenny Bach, Secretary of the California Democratic Party, Dr. Lisa Strohman, JD, PhD, and more.

www.caprivacy.org
@caprivacyorg

About Californians for Consumer Privacy
Californians for Consumer Privacy is the same group that authored the first-in-the-nation California Consumer Privacy Act, which was passed unanimously by the California State Legislature and signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown. Now the group is backing Prop 24, the California Privacy Rights Act on the 2020 ballot, to expand and enshrine privacy rights for all Californians.




             Paid for by Yes on 24,
              Californians for Consumer
              Privacy

             Committee major funding from
              Alastair Mactaggart



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