Despite the fact that California has one of the nation's most comprehensive data privacy laws, it's not always easy for people to exercise those privacy rights. A.B. 566 intends to make it easy by directing browsers to give all their users the option to tell companies they don't want personal information that's collected about them on the internet to be sold or shared.
"Our passports have been secretly turned into mugshots. The government has taken all of our passport photos and secretly turned them into mugshots to build a giant, Orwellian police database."