Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Comments on CA AB 2273)
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...</a><p>The author is right that:<p>1. Every single website and app regardless of whether it is specifically built for kids or not is covered by this bill, and<p>2. It is virtually impossible to identify and segment your user base and apply the bill's protections to only those you can 100% confirm are under 18.<p>So, the likely outcome is that this bill becomes an enhanced CCPA and something businesses have to generally comply with for every user.<p>Looking at the actual contents of the bill though, my response to that is – great! I do want to be treated like a child online. I want sites to present terms of service in a language I can understand. I want them to set my account's privacy settings to the highest offered by default. I want apps to remove dark patterns that get me to spend money. I don't want them to store my data unless using it to provide a service. I want them to tell me up front if my browsing is being monitored by someone else. I want actual consequences if a company decides to leak all my personal data. (All of these are provisions that will be enforced).<p>The author is critical of the bill as a whole but I don't see any argument against any of the individual provisions. I also don't get where the "eliminate anonymous web browsing" in the title comes from. If anything it will make it less likely for sites to track you.