Workers reporting violations of California’s privacy laws would be entitled to job protections and monetary awards under legislation backed by the state’s privacy regulator.
The legislator authoring the measure (AB 2021) said it would reduce the professional risk for workers inside the tech industry who choose to expose state privacy law violations to the California Privacy Protection Agency, or CalPrivacy.
The agency, which already receives about 150 consumer complaints each week as the watchdog responsible for enforcing the state’s privacy laws, is supporting the bill with the aim of attracting more high-level and technically sophisticated tipsters.
“The challenge ...