The California Privacy Protection Agency board voted Friday to pursue state legislation next year that would implement whistleblower protections for workers who flag privacy risks at their companies.
Such protections would include a financial awards program to incentivize employees to blow the whistle on privacy violations, such as allowing them to receive a share of any enforcement fine. The yet-to-be-drafted legislation would allow the agency to collaborate with whistleblower attorneys and implement anti-retaliation provisions. The main goal is to expose violations that otherwise wouldn’t be discovered through consumer complaints, agency staff said.
“Technology and data-driven business practices are often opaque, ...