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from larger businesses — the big property
owners, the CB Richard Ellises, the David
Taylors. … The bottom line is these costs
are passed onto small-business owners.
Most small-business owners are renters;
they do not own their property.
What is the position of NFIB on Assem-
bly Bill 5?
AB 5 is terrible policy that strikes at
t he he a r t of ent repreneu r i sm a nd
small-business success in California. It
will make it next to impossible for the
single parent, college student, senior
or everyday Californian trying to make
ends meet to find flexible, promising job
opportunities in their communities. The
bill, signed by Gov. (Gavin) Newsom, is
a classic example of “Swiss cheese” leg-
islation that picks winners (a few hand-
picked industries and jobs championed
by powerful special interests at the end
of legislative session) and losers (most
mom-and-pop businesses) in the Golden
State. NFIB will most definitely be tak-
ing steps to ensure all small businesses
are protected and can continue to sur-
vive and grow, be it through legislation
or legally, as we move forward, and, in
the meantime, make sure our members
k now what t hey need to k now to be
compliant.
What are your thoughts on the Cali-
fornia Consumer Privacy Act, set to go
into effect Jan. 1, 2020?
Gov. (Jerry) Brown signed into law … leg-
islation that gives consumers sweeping
rights and abilities to demand their data
from businesses of various levels that in-
volves or includes them — from credit
card transactions to online communica-
tion to video clips of surveillance video.
It was done in the wake of some larger
high-profile cases of legitimate data
breaches. Without question, small-busi-
ness owners and consumers alike don’t
want their personal information to get
to the wrong hands. However, there’s a
right way to do policy and a wrong way
to do policy. … Both Democrats and
Republicans in the Legislature, and the
governor, recognize that it was thrown
together haphazardly, reck lessly and
with many, many f laws that now unin-
tentionally put small-business owners in
a very difficult position with new costs,
reporting requirements and liability.
The good news is the law doesn’t go into
effect until Jan. 1, and there have been
hope for some fixes.
The definition of what “personal in-
formation” is is still very broadly written.
… It now can apply to how many times
a customer has visited a company web-
site or how many times a customer has
been on a surveillance video walking in
or out of the business or inside the store.
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