{"id":76082,"date":"2025-10-08T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=76082"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:11:44","slug":"governor-newsom-signs-data-privacy-bills-to-protect-tech-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=76082","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom signs data privacy bills to protect tech users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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What you need to know:<\/strong>\u00a0Governor Newsom signed AB 656, which requires social media companies to make it clear and easy for a user to delete their account \u2013 and requires that deletion also trigger full deletion of the user\u2019s personal data. This law builds on the administration\u2019s prior work to protect consumers and their privacy.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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SACRAMENTO \u2013 Today, as San Francisco Tech Week 2025 continues, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 656 by Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo (D-Santa Clarita), requiring social media companies to make canceling an account straightforward and clear \u2013 and ensuring that cancellation triggers full deletion of the user\u2019s personal data. The Governor also signed additional laws to help strengthen California\u2019s landmark privacy protections and ensure that consumers have transparent and fair ways to control their own data.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be hard to delete social media accounts, and it shouldn\u2019t be even harder to take back control of personal data. With these bills, social media users can be assured that when they delete their accounts, they do not leave their data behind. \u201d<\/h4>\n
Governor Gavin Newsom<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cSocial media users deserve to have the confidence that they can easily delete their account and when they do that their personal information is deleted too,”\u00a0said Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo.<\/strong>\u00a0“I\u2019m grateful that with the signing of AB 656, California is putting consumers first.\u201d<\/p>\n

These laws build on the Governor\u2019s prior work to protect consumers and their privacy. That includes\u00a0last year\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Click to Cancel bill, AB 2863 by Assemblymember Schiavo, that made it easier to cancel subscriptions, and 2023\u2019s SB 362 by Senator Josh Becker, the DELETE Act, which, beginning in August 2026, will allow Californians to delete all of their data held by data brokers through a single interface.<\/p>\n

Giving consumers more control of their data<\/h2>\n

Governor Newsom also signed two additional bills to help consumers maintain better control of their data:<\/p>\n