Data privacy: Ever since the EU passed its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), privacy advocates in the US have asked their own politicians to pass similarly-comprehensive legislation. Though federal laws of that nature are still a ways off (if they come about at all), California has heard the call and acted upon it.
In 2018, the state passed the California Consumer Privacy Ac t (CCPA), which lays out many GDPR-like data rights for consumers. For example, users can








