SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham’s (R-San Luis Obispo) Anti-Eavesdropping Act (AB 1395) passed the State Assembly Tuesday in a 44-6 vote.
The bill, if signed into law, would prohibit smart speaker manufacturers from retaining or distributing voice recordings or transcriptions without the user’s consent.
“Today, the State Assembly sent a strong message to the tech giants who have spent years recording and retaining private conversations in the home via smart devices,” said Cunningham. “Tech giants have provided consumers with a false choice: live in a smart and interconnected home, or keep your conversations private. We can have both.
“Private conversations in the home should remain private, and no company should have the ability to record these conversations without consent.”
The Anti-Eavesdropping Act had bipartisan support in the Assembly, and is a part of the Assembly Republican-led #YourDataYourWay privacy package unveiled earlier this year. The bill will now move to the Senate for consideration.
Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham is a small business owner; former school board member and prosecutor, husband and father of four. He proudly represents all of San Luis Obispo County and a portion of Santa Barbara County, including Arroyo Grande, Atascadero, Cambria, Paso Robles, Grover Beach, Guadalupe, Lompoc, Los Osos, Morro Bay, Nipomo, Orcutt, Pismo Beach, Templeton, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Maria, and surrounding communities.
Editors Note:
How they voted
| Date | Result | Location | Ayes | Noes | NVR | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/28/19 | (PASS) | Assembly Floor | 44 | 6 | 30 | AB 1395 Cunningham Assembly Third Reading |
| Ayes: Bigelow, Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Bonta, Burke, Carrillo, Cervantes, Chau, Choi, Chu, Cunningham, Dahle, Eggman, Fong, Friedman, Gabriel, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Gipson, Gloria, Gonzalez, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Kamlager-Dove, Lackey, Levine, Limón, Maienschein, Mayes, McCarty, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, O’Donnell, Quirk, Ramos, Salas, Santiago, Mark Stone, Voepel, Weber, Wicks, Wood, Rendon | ||||||
| Noes: Irwin, Low, Medina, Obernolte, Petrie-Norris, Smith | ||||||
| No Votes Recorded: Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Bauer-Kahan, Berman, Brough, Calderon, Chen, Chiu, Cooley, Cooper, Daly, Diep, Flora, Frazier, Eduardo Garcia, Gray, Grayson, Kiley, Mathis, Melendez, Mullin, Patterson, Quirk-Silva, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio, Ting, Waldron | ||||||
| 04/30/19 | (PASS) | Asm Privacy and Consumer Protection | 9 | 0 | 2 | Do pass as amended. |
| Ayes: Bauer-Kahan, Berman, Calderon, Chau, Gabriel, Gallagher, Kiley, Smith, Wicks | ||||||
| Noes: | ||||||
| No Votes Recorded: Irwin, Obernolte | ||||||
