Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, Tuesday, March 3, 2026

3 März 2026

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Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee Di., 3. März 2026 California State Assembly

36:58 - 40:50

Redner 1

I'll know exactly where you are. Good afternoon. This is a hearing of the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. The hearing is on California's privacy in the age of mass surveillance. And I wanna start by thanking our panelists who are here today to participate in the hearing.

We're fortunate to have several leading experts in the field, including from four of our UC campuses, which always makes us proud, including Berkeley, Irvine, Davis, and UCSF. So I wanna thank committee staff for their work, the rules committee, sergeant's office, speaker's office, and everyone who supports these hearings. This is an interesting time to be having this hearing. It was obviously scheduled before the news of last week around how generative AI and our large language model should be used as it relates to mass surveillance. And so this has been a hot topic and a real question of how government should be using our technology that is here now today.

And so I'm glad we're here to have this conversation. Every day, I, and I imagine everybody who is listening to this, frankly, give away a lot of data. Every time we engage on our phones, and the background, or I think did a really good job of this, we engage with smart devices, our phones, we walk past cameras that are in our neighbors' homes, and we give away information about ourselves that is now being aggregated in ways that are really, really powerful. There are currently over 4,000 data brokers profiting from that personal information that they're aggregating, and they have collected data on over 98% of the population. One of the largest data brokers claims to have over 10,000 data attributes on over 2,500,000,000 people in more than 60 countries.

So while people wanting information about us is not new, surveillance is not new, the ability to gather the information and then to put it all together using AI is really puts us in a moment where, the amount of information that's being collected on us and on our constituents is incredibly powerful and, frankly, something we should be thinking about, paying attention to, and deciding how we want to proceed as California. As the background noted, California has some of the strongest privacy laws in the nation, and yet we should still be looking at ourselves and our policies and asking if they go far enough in today's day and age to protect the privacy that, frankly, hopefully, some of my Republican colleagues will join us has been a bipartisan value on this committee. So I wanna note that today, we're joined by assembly member Ortega, who just walked in. Perfect timing. It's okay.

Made that happen. She's obviously a member of the consume privacy and consumer protection committee, but I also wanna note that she is she has many hats she'll be wearing today. She is the chair of the labor committee, and there is, a small piece of this. And as noted in the background here, where we will look upon the question of, surveillance, not just in the public sphere, but also in our workplaces. And, also, she is the vice chair of the Latino caucus.

And, I know that part of what many of us are concerned about as it relates to the question of surveillance is how it is affecting, our undocumented communities in, today's environment. And so, I'm glad she's here to serve in all of those capacities. Thank you, assemblymember. And then I'll note that assemblymember Schultz and assembly member Carrillo were invited to join us and hopefully will. Assembly member Schultz who is chair of our public safety committee because this obviously touches on constitutional protections unique to public safety.

And then assembly member Carrillo who's the other vice chair of our Latino caucus. Today, we have three panels. We will save questions till the end of each panel, but would like to invite Assemblyman Muratea to make any opening remarks if you'd like.

40:51 - 41:34

Redner 2

Thank you. First of all, thank you, chair, for hosting this very important hearing today. As you mentioned, I do have a lot of hats, in this building, and this issue is particularly important during this time where we're seeing additional surveillance of our Latino communities, immigrant communities, and how that's impacting, the laws that we're passing to protect everyone in the state. So I am am looking forward to today's testimony and, you know, looking forward to what comes out of this committee and how we can use it to further protect everyone in the state of California and the country, given the state we're in with this federal administration. So thank you.

41:35 - 41:40

Redner 1

Thank you. Assemblymember, and I don't know if Assemblymember Repellor and Louenthal would like to make a few remarks. Assemblymember Repellor?

41:41 - 41:52

Redner 3

Just wanna thank the folks who wrote the background paper. I read it last night. It was very haunting and kept me up at night. So thank you so much, but I know there's a lot of work that went into that. I really appreciate it.

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