Electronic Frontier Foundation

It contains at least one good idea: improving consent rules so users can automatically set consent preferences that will apply across all sites.

Face recognition is one of the most intrusive of all surveillance technologies. There are already numerous instances of law enforcement using this technology to misidentify and arrest innocent people. Now, immigration officers are harassing people on...

malicious deepfakes [...] the bill imposes criminal penalties [...] interfere in an election [...] The First Amendment generally bars criminal laws.

We doubt these algorithmic tools are ready for prime time, and the state of California should not have embraced their use before establishing ways to scrutinize them for bias, fairness, and accuracy. They must also be transparent and open to regular...