In his State of the State address last week, California’s new governor Gavin Newsom announced that he has directed his team to develop a “proposal for a new Data Dividend for Californians” that would apparently entitle consumers to compensation for the use of their data. (State of the State (02/12/2019).) If adopted, the Data Dividend would be the first measure of its kind and could spur other states to pass copycat legislation.
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