CALIFORNIA’S PRIVACY AGENCY board will ask the state legislature to pass a bill next year creating whistleblower protections for workers who flag privacy risks at their companies.
- The yet-to-be-drafted legislation would financially incentivize employees to report these violations, allow the agency to collaborate with their attorneys, and implement anti-retaliation provisions, agency staff said at a Friday board meeting. The main goal is to expose violations that otherwise wouldn’t be discovered through consumer complaints, they said.
- This is the second measure the board will have proposed to the state legislature since the first-in-the-nation privacy agency’s inception in 2020. Gov. Gavin Newsom ...