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This single state contains Silicon Valley and is 14% of the US economy. Jurisdictionally, it could be challenged - but again, a business could just decline to
by r00fus 7y ago
This single state contains Silicon Valley and is 14% of the US economy. Jurisdictionally, it could be challenged - but again, a business could just decline to do business with all customers in CA.
btw - nothing new here (fta): "Big companies are signing deals with firms that specialize in compliance".
Big companies already hire compliance companies for a large number of other regulatory requirements. This is just yet another such requirement - and it's still being hammered out in a public comment period prior to going into law.
- weaksauce 7y ago> This single state contains Silicon Valley and is 14% of the US economy california is the sixth largest economy in the world.
- kaikai 7y agoThose two statements aren't mutually exclusive
- weaksauce 7y agothey aren't but it's misleadingly low statistic. I think la county has something like 38% of the economy of the country.
- lidHanteyk 7y agoYeah, but this is the statement that puts into sharp relief what's going on: This is a trade dispute between two of the Top 10 Economic Powers, more or less, and it can't really be adjudicated in a way that the USA can take advantage of. The USA's primary establishment of data abuse is institutionalized but not written into law, and no legislator would dare do such a thing. California is doing what they have always done in these situations; they are demanding a better quality of life for their citizens, and they know that the USA has no reason to object other than corruption and aristocracy.
- manigandham 7y agoThat's absolutely meaningless to other states unless majority rule is the way you want to run things.