The self-serving wailing of a lawyer/lobbyist for the privacy invasion industry, how very droll. The California initiative process, introduced around 1911 by c

The self-serving wailing of a lawyer/lobbyist for the privacy invasion industry, how very droll. The California initiative process, introduced around 1911 by crusading progressive governor Hiram Johnson to curb a venal legislature in hock to special interests, worked as designed in this case. Of course special interests adapted and learned to coopt the process, as the sugary-drinks industry is doing with its own initiative to arm-twist the State into preempting local soda taxes like Berkeley’s or San Francisco’s. The privacy initiative took 2 years of preparation, not 7 days: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/29/california_data_privacy_law/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/29/california_data_pri...