Silicon Valley’s Clout Squelches Consumer’s Right to Know

Silicon Valley the land of freedom?  Think again.  From the LA Times: Silicon Valley has wielded its growing political clout at the state Capitol to kill a digital privacy bill that would have given consumers access to information about them being collected online.

Had the Right to Know Act become law, California would have been the first state to take direct aim at an online industry that stockpiles and trades in a wide range of personal data about nearly every adult in the United States.

In a major defeat for consumer groups and privacy watchdogs, AB 1291 will instead become a two-year bill, effectively putting it into a deep freeze until next year….

Wait…wait…there’s more at http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-digital-privacy-20130503,0,7322818.story