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Like an alcoholic having a \u201cmoment<\/a> of clarity<\/a>\u201d, once again a the state of California has somehow passed bills that do something good and positive\u2026 which is a very, very rare occurrence for the California Grand Soviet<\/span> Legislature<\/em>. It happened not just once, but somehow twice!<\/p>\n The first is a protection<\/a> of a consumers neural data<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe new bill amends the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which grants consumers rights over personal information that is collected by businesses. The term \u2018personal information\u2019 already included biometric data (such as your face, voice, or fingerprints). Now it also explicitly includes neural data.<\/p>\n \u201cThe bill defines neural data as \u2018information that is generated by measuring the activity of a consumer\u2019s central or peripheral nervous system, and that is not inferred from nonneural information.\u2019 In other words, data collected from a person\u2019s brain or nerves.<\/p>\n \u201cThe law prevents companies from selling or sharing a person\u2019s data and requires them to make efforts to deidentify the data. It also gives consumers the right to know what information is collected and the right to delete it. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n While this may seem like a solution to a yet non-existent cyberpunk dystopia, it is the type of forethought that California stumbles into less frequently than a nut found by a blind squirrel with epilepsy.<\/p>\n Another bill has already resulted in a win for consumers<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cSteam, a digital PC game store, now says you\u2019re buying a license to a game and not a product, not long after California signed a new law requiring digital stores to make this change.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the new law, AB 2426, won\u2019t go into effect until 2025 \u2013 Steam has made the change already to their global digital store, the largest digital PC game on the planet.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018A purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam,\u201d the new disclaimer says when making purchases on the platform. The disclaimer also has a link to the Steam subscriber Terms & Conditions.<\/p>\n \u201cThe new law will prohibit online stores from using the words \u2018buy, purchase, or any other term which a reasonable person would understand to confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good or alongside an option for a time-limited rental.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The bill which protects \u201cneural data\u201d can be found here<\/a> or read below:<\/p>\n\n
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