"Google claimed that the legislation would "hurt your ability to use online ads to reach customers.""
""It was intentionally misleading people that by this bill passing, they were going to lose out on all of these tools within Google (to advertise)," she told CalMatters."
"The document was officially from the "Connected Commerce Council," which the tech giant backs financially."
Google sent an email to a list of small business owners asking them to sign a petition opposing Assembly Bill 566, which would require browsers to provide users with an automatic option to instruct websites not to share personal information with third parties. The email warned the legislation would "hurt your ability to use online ads to reach customers." The petition was filed by the Connected Commerce Council, a group financially backed by Google, rather than bearing Google's name. The campaign operated quietly, with the bill's sponsor unaware of the outreach and without records of small business signatures reaching the sponsor's office.
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