(Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.) Gavin Newsom gave his wide-ranging State of the State address, he floated an idea that built upon last year’s passage of a sweeping new consumer privacy act. “But California’s consumers should also be able to share in the wealth that is created from their data. And so, I’ve asked my team to develop a proposal for a new Data Dividend for Californians.”It’s not a totally new concept, and the particulars have yet to be decided. “What I’m ecstatic about is that one of the challenges in government is we’re generally slow and look backward — we don’t look forward,” State Senator Bob Hertzberg, a co-author of the California Consumer Privacy Act, told me recently.

Source: New York Times March 25, 2019 13:19 UTC