Antitrust and Consumer Protection
Competition: Spring 2019, Vol 29, No. 1
Content
- A Practitioner's Perspective: Why the Supreme Court Should Not Overturn Illinois Brick In Apple V. Pepper
- Antitrust Enforcement Panel: a Conversation With Two Enforcers
- Antitrust, Ucl and Privacy Section Executive Committee 2018-2019
- California and Federal Antitrust Law Update: Procedural Developments
- California Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Update: Substantive Law
- California Antitrust and Consumer Protection Section Law Update: Substantive Law
- Chair's Column
- Editor's Note
- Golden State Institute's 28Th Anniversary Edition
- In re: Processed Egg Products Antitrust Litigation: a Panel Discussion With Trial Counsel
- In re: Solodyn Antitrust Litigation: Lessons From a "Big Stakes" Reverse Payment Pharmaceutical Trial
- Managing Class Actions and Complex Litigation—a View From the Bench
- The Interplay of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation and U.S. E-Discovery—One Year Later, the View Remains the Same
- Where Do We Go From Here: Article III Standing and Cy Pres-only Settlements In Privacy Class Actions In the Wake of Frank V. Gaos
- Social Media, Right To Privacy and the California Consumer Privacy Act
SOCIAL MEDIA, RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND THE CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT
By Dominique-Chantale Alepin1
I. INTRODUCTION
By the spring of 2018, media and consumer outrage over social media misuse of personal information had reached fever pitch. On March 17, 2018, three news organizations including the New York Times, published stories revealing that Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal data of millions of people’s Facebook profiles without their consent and used it for political purposes.2 It was a watershed moment in the public understanding of how much personal data was being stored on social media, and the use and misuse of that data.
In California that spring, the group "Californians for Consumer Privacy" had been putting together a sweeping privacy initiative for presentation on the ballot for California voters. Given the mounting concern over the use and misuse of personal data, the initiative quickly garnered enough signatures—629,000—nearly twice the required minimum to appear on the ballot statewide in the November 2018 election.3