Thanks for sticking with me. I’d missed the first two of those stories in my RSS feed — they are reassuring on the commercial surveillance front. On the CCPA,

Thanks for sticking with me. I’d missed the first two of those stories in my RSS feed — they are reassuring on the commercial surveillance front. On the CCPA, thanks for the link (a very good post, which I hadn’t seen, and you’re right, the name change thew me off). I’m still a bit surprised that I didn’t hear about the CCPA passing from the EFF, but the national business press, local radio etc. If they have objections, I want to hear them! I’m sure this will shake-out in time. On commercial surveillance: This is still comforting murmurs/asking-nicely (which they’ve always done) as opposed formally endorsing/mobilizing-for specific, enforceable legislation, as they commonly do on government surveillance, copyright, NN, etc. But, the posts you link do seem to indicate that this is now a stated legal priority for them, I’m glad to see CC and DB’s names on peice, as well as a focus on opt-in consent. Consider me somewhat-reassured and optimistic, and thanks for digging these up. On the regulation vs. animal-spirits question, I get the impression we’d agree in-person (all of the EFF’s recommendations in your links sound like good ones to me), but I’ll decline another round :)