California’s Senate approved a measure Thursday aimed at protecting consumers’ information from being misused, Los Angeles Times reports. The bill, introduced by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), would limit online merchants’ collection of data to only that which is necessary and would prohibit the merchants from selling the data or using it for marketing purposes. Meanwhile, a recent breach at Snapchat narrowly avoided repercussions under California’s updated data breach law, which took effect January 1, and the state’s attorney general recently filed a suit against Kaiser Foundation Health Plan for a 2011 breach.
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