California “Shine The Light Law” 2005

This is going to be short, but I thought it was kind of neat.

The California “Shine The Light Law” CA Civil Code 1798.83, effective January 1, 2005:

Essentially, this law states that a business that sends you Junk Mail, or otherwise is required by law to disclose to you where they got your information from. This doesn’t effect all businesses though.

Read more about it here:

http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/SB27Release.htm

I sure could use this!

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