California Democrats eye new way to resist Trump’s immigration crackdown
SACRAMENTO, California — California Democrats have a new approach to resisting President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, beyond sanctuary cities and thwarting ICE raids: data protection.
State lawmakers’ fear, shared by civil liberties groups, is that the Trump administration could leverage massive caches of location data and other online personal information gathered by advertisers, mobile apps and data brokers to aid mass deportations or target people seeking gender-affirming care.