 |  | | Thursday, January 02, 2020 • By Anthony Ha | |
Happy 2020 The California Consumer Privacy Act is now in effect, a Google executive resigns over human rights concerns and a robot vacuum company raises $15 million. Here’s your very first Daily Crunch for the new decade. | | | |
| The CCPA is now officially the law in California, although there’s a grace period of six months before regulators penalize any tech companies that sell your personal data without your permission. The law requires, among other things, that companies notify users of the intent to monetize their data, and give them a straightforward means of opting out of said monetization. Sounds simple, but it will probably take years before its implications for businesses and regulators are completely understood. Read more | |  Image Credits: Lee Woodgate / Getty Images | | |
| Danny Crichton looks at some of the bigger implications behind the resignation of Ross LaJeunesse, who was head of international relations at Google and served for more than a decade in various roles at the company. Read more | | | |
| The company’s Lucy vacuum includes a pair of cameras, which combine 1080p color images with depth sensing to provide home surveillance and mapping in light and dark settings. (Whether or not that appeals to you will depend on your views about privacy.) Read more | |  | | |
| The Pallone-Thune TRACED Act, a bipartisan bit of legislation that should make life harder for the villains behind robocalls, was signed into law by the president on Tuesday. Read more | | | |
| The hope for Lowkey is that it can connect adult gamers with one another to get the most out of their gaming experience. Everyone playing through Lowkey must be 18 years of age or older and have a full-time job. Read more | |  | | |
| Our editorial and events teams work hard throughout the year to ensure that we bring you the most dynamic and diverse group of speakers and judges to our event stages. And finally, at the tail end of 2019, we bring you … 2018 data. Read more | | | |
| The top 10 enterprise M&A deals in 2019 were less than half of last year's, totaling a mere $40.6 billion. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more | | | |
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