Silicon Valley is fighting privacy advocates over a California bill, the
first of its kind in the nation, that would require companies like Facebook Inc. FB -1.92%and Google Inc. GOOG -1.61%to disclose to users the personal data
they have collected and with whom they have shared it. The industry backlash is against the "Right to Know Act," a bill introduced
in February by Bonnie Lowenthal, a Democratic assemblywoman from Long Beach. It
would make Internet companies, upon request, share with Californians personal
information they have collected—including buying habits, physical location and
sexual orientation—and what they have passed on to third parties such as
marketing companies, app makers and other companies that collect and sell data. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323916304578402912554668102.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_tech
