Mobile applications: recordable information: privacy.

Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants a consumer various rights with regard to the consumer's personal information that is held by a business, including the right to know what personal information is collected by a business, to have personal information held by that business deleted, and to direct a business to not sell the consumer's personal information, as specified. Existing law requires an operator of a commercial website or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the internet, about individual consumers residing in California who use or visit its commercial internet website or online service, to make a privacy policy available to consumers and to include specified information relating to the collection of personally identifiable information within that privacy policy. This bill would require the operator of a mobile application to provide clear and conspicuous notice that fully informs consumers when, how, and why their recordable information, defined to include visual, audio, or geolocation information, will be collected, used, and shared upon installation of the application. The bill would require the operator of a mobile application to obtain consent before collecting or using recordable information and to obtain separate consent before disclosing that information.