Apr. 17, 2026
The price of privacy in California's data economy
The California Supreme Court's grant of review in Yeh v. Twitter gives the justices a chance to reinvigorate the state constitution's explicit right to privacy -- a 1972 protection inspired by Justice William O. Douglas -- by deciding whether companies' monetization of users' personal contact information can support a consumer protection claim.
Three prominent liberal lawyers were in San Francisco on June 14, 1968. Thanks to them, the right to privacy is a premier feature of the California Constitution.
Their influence on the entitlement of individuals to personal autonomy is directly on point in a new grant of review by the California Supreme Court as the justices consider how the right to privacy affects businesses' monetization of personal information in the data age.
Over the decades, the high court has ...
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