'A Total Mess': Judge Slams Calif. Privacy Law's Ambiguity

By Lauren Berg ( October 20, 2025, 6:27 PM EDT) -- California's Invasion of Privacy Act "is a total mess" that routinely requires courts to make "borderline impossible" decisions about how to apply the law's language to new technologies, a San Francisco federal judge commented in an order Friday, pleading for state lawmakers to bring the law into the 21st century....

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