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CA Leads the Way with First Online Privacy Law

On July 1, Online Privacy Act AB 68, the nation's first privacy law directed at protecting consumers in online businesses transactions will go into effect. Among the requirements that the new law mandates are: online posting of privacy policies, providing detailed informing to consumers on the different types of personally identifiable information that is collected, informing users how they may change their personal information, and defining how changes in privacy policy will be communicated to customers.

First online privacy law looms
, Computerworld, June 24, 2004