Who We Are
Tech Oversight California is an advocacy organization that brings together policy, organizing, and communications experts to champion policy for tech accountability in Sacramento to foster a safer and healthier internet for all Californians.
What We Do
We coordinate and collaborate with organizations across California to engage and mobilize policymakers and the public towards meaningful tech policy reforms that address Big Tech’s toxic business model and provide powerful online protections for Californians.
What We’re Fighting For
Privacy
Strong data protections for all Californians.
Safety
Default settings and designs for safety online in California.
Competition
Fair competition for all businesses online in California.
Press Releases
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ICYMI: The Lever Exposes Big Tech’s Multi-Million-Dollar Campaign to Kill the COMPETE Act
“Big Tech is spending millions to protect its monopolies, and now we know exactly where that money is going. The COMPETE Act would stop the biggest corporations from crushing competitors before they ever get off the ground, and the industry is doing everything it can to stop it.”
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Tech Oversight CA Calls for Lawmakers to Support COMPETE Act
As the COMPETE Act heads to a key vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Tech Oversight California is calling on lawmakers to advance the landmark anti-monopoly bill, which would stop the state’s largest corporations from crushing competitors before they can get off the ground, over a coordinated, big-money campaign to kill it.
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ICYMI: Gene Kimmelman: California should lead on competition while Washington falters
“Given the current vacuum in meaningful federal enforcement, now is the time for California policymakers to come together and give enforcement agencies the tools they need to protect consumers and workers. The COMPETE Act offers a critical opportunity to do just that.”
Recent News
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State takes steps toward regulating kids’ use of AI chatbots
Advocacy groups support AB 1064, but they dropped their backing of SB 243 after a series of late changes to it that they argued weakened the bill. Among other things, the changes would exempt chatbots built into video games and into smart speakers such as Amazon’s Echo line of products.
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Google wasn’t against this privacy bill, officially. Behind the scenes, it orchestrated opposition
The largely behind-the-scenes campaign offers a glimpse into how the tech giant is working to preserve its grip on the online advertising market and how it attempts, without being seen, to shape policies in a state with one of the nation’s strictest privacy protection laws.
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Social Media and AI Regulations Gain Momentum in California
With the end of the legislative session in sight, the push to pass social media and AI regulations is heating up in Sacramento, and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom is lending her star power to the effort. Siebel Newsom spoke on a panel discussion Wednesday held by Common Sense Media, a main player in the…
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