SACRAMENTO — Government agencies would have to get a warrant or court order to obtain customers’ reading records from bookstores and online booksellers, under a bill approved by the state Senate.
The legislation by Sen. Leland Yee is patterned after similar privacy protections that currently are in place for library records. The bill, SB602, passed the Senate unanimously and without debate Monday. It now goes to the Assembly.
Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco, says digital book services can collect details about the books readers browse, even the notes they write in the margins.
His bill is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Google, among others. There was no registered opposition.
