California Attorney General Kamala Harris has
formed a new unit aimed at enforcing federal and state privacy laws to
protect consumers.
Harris says she intends to
give consumers more control over how their personal information is used,
and enforce laws that protect how private or sensitive information is
shared and with whom.
The Privacy Enforcement and
Protection Unit, which will include six prosecutors, is intended to
enforce laws related to cyber privacy, health privacy, financial
privacy, identity theft, government records and data breaches.
The announcement comes soon
after Harris signed an agreement with six tech giants - Apple, Amazon,
Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Research In Motion - to ensure
their mobile applications have clear privacy policies. Facebook joined
the agreement last month.
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