{"source_url": "https://www.eastbaytimes.com", "url": "https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/01/01/political-cartoons-happy-new-year-california/", "title": "Political Cartoons: Happy New Year, California!", "top_image": "https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1-1-20web.jpg?w=1024&h=697", "meta_img": "https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1-1-20web.jpg?w=1024&h=697", "images": ["https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1-1-20web.jpg?w=1024&h=697", "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0e42ff389d1970bb05976d0567fe8372?s=85&d=mm&r=g", "https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/jetpack/modules/sharedaddy/images/loading.gif"], "movies": [], "text": "CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos or videos on a mobile device\n\nTo ring in the new year, California\u2019s own Tom Meyer whipped up a cartoon about the state\u2019s new data privacy law, which took effect Wednesday.\n\nBefore you commit to resolutions and reinvent yourself for the new decade, look back on the biggest news stories that Meyer satirized last year, ranging from a record number of horse deaths at racing tracks to the first photograph ever taken of a black hole and Pacific Gas & Electric\u2019s bankruptcy declaration.\n\nFront and center, though, is Meyer\u2019s latest, which focuses on how Bay Area tech companies will reckon with the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, passed in 2018 amid data scandals involving Equifax, Facebook and company. The Associated Press is calling the new bill the \u201cbiggest U.S. effort yet to confront \u2018surveillance capitalism.\u2019\u201d\n\nRelated Articles Political cartoons: So long, 2019 \u2014 and welcome, 2020\n\nPolitical cartoons: House to vote Wednesday on impeaching Trump\n\nPolitical cartoons: Russia banned from 2020 Tokyo Olympics over doping scandal\n\nCartoons: How President Trump the Grinch cut food stamps, incensed North Korean leader\n\nCartoons: Trump\u2019s exaggeration about low-flow toilets Meanwhile, our editorial board is cautiously optimistic on the imperfect law. But how does that affect you? According to our editorial board and the bill\u2019s author, the law also known as AB 375 would:\n\n\u2022 Give internet users control over their personal information by requiring providers to obtain \u201copt-in\u201d consent before they can use, disclose, sell or allow others access to customer\u2019s personal information.\n\n\u2022 Require that broadband providers maintain reasonable security protection so information can\u2019t be collected by a third party.\n\n\u2022 Give users the right to compel companies to delete private data that they collected on individuals.\n\n\u2022 Prohibit companies from selling data about children under the age of 13 without a parent\u2019s consent.\n\nFor more political cartoons, CLICK HERE", "keywords": [], "meta_keywords": [""], "tags": ["Cartoons"], "authors": ["Dylan Bouscher"], "publish_date": "Wed Jan  1 00:00:00 2020", "summary": "", "article_html": "", "meta_description": "", "meta_lang": "en", "meta_favicon": "https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/32x32-ebt.png?w=32", "meta_data": {"application-name": "eastbaytimes", "viewport": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1", "msvalidate.01": "4B535F7EB2971D1FCBA5D1D3E3E292C3", "generator": "WordPress 5.3.2", "wp-parsely_version": "1.14", "fb": {"pages": 17088540698}, "google-site-verification": "u5NZtugcTf_14hKIebRYYsDms05ZEjV60G0INS-jyew", "og": {"type": "article", "title": "Political Cartoons: Happy New Year, California!", "url": "http://www.mercurynews.com/political-cartoons-happy-new-year-california", "description": "Cartoonist Tom Meyer reflects on the year we leave behind \u2014 and the one that\u2019s just begun.", "site_name": "East Bay Times", "image": {"identifier": "https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1-1-20web.jpg?w=1024&h=697", "width": 1024, "height": 697}, "locale": "en_US"}, "article": {"published_time": "2020-01-02T00:12:20+00:00", "modified_time": "2020-01-02T00:17:58+00:00"}, "twitter": {"site": "@eastbaytimes", "text": {"title": "Political Cartoons: Happy New Year, California!"}, "image": "https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1-1-20web.jpg?w=640", "card": "summary_large_image"}, "msapplication-TileImage": "https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/32x32-ebt.png?w=32"}, "canonical_link": "http://www.mercurynews.com/political-cartoons-happy-new-year-california"}