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What’s changed in the CPRA ? The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020

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What’s Changed in the CPRA?  The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020   The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) is the law now. With some exceptions, the CPRA expands privacy protections afforded under the current California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), giving consumers more rights over their personal information and requiring greater transparency and obligations from businesses. Beyond new rights, the CPRA establishes a privacy enforcement agency - the California Privacy Protection Agency - that would be the first of its kind state agency dedicated to privacy enforcement. The CPRA also reaches areas of digital privacy untouched by the CCPA, including dark patterns, behavioral advertising, and profiling. In addition to these remarkable changes, the CPRA significantly amends existing rights and responsibilities presently enforced under the CCPA. The CPRA’s amendments serve to clarify ambiguous areas of the CCPA and, if passed, will better align the law’s text with its

Why does India need Data Privacy or Protection Law ?

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Why does India need a Data Protection Law? Apart from appeasing European Union for sharing data with Indian companies, One of the reason is presently all Data of ours -Search, Emails, Chats of Google, FB, Hotmail, Whatsapp are stored in Californian Servers, USA Jurisdiction. US Foriegn Intelligence Survivelenace Court (FISA) with a single penstroke court gag order can take all Indian MPs, PMO, Home Minister,MEA's etc Email data and Analyse them for leverage in Intl' Affairs, Thats a severe Threat, #privacy intrusion.  Not to mention even the Locations of each Citizen,Official in India can be monitored by US NSA analysts as of now with #Whatsapp, Android Phones relaying data back to USA servers.  Hence a Data Protection Law in India is a need of the Hour. " How to turn Android Phone or Tablet into a Server " .You can check it out here -  https://joyofandroid.com/use-old-android-phone-as-server/