Data privacy in California will soon be as easy as clicking a button. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed into law a bill that requires internet browsers to make it easy for customers to notify websites that they do not want their data sold.

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The bill is called the California Opt Me Out Act , and it bolsters the California Consumer Privacy Act , which became law in 2020. The act originally allowed internet consumers to opt out of having their data sold to third parties, but major web browsers did not make that process simple. Consumers would either have to install third-party browser extensions or else instruct every single website they visited not to sell their data.

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