The Journal: Complying with Consumer Laws and Stuff

In today’s Journal

* Topic: Complying with Consumer Laws and Stuff
* Today
* Of Interest
* The Numbers

Topic: Complying with Consumer Laws and Stuff

California, I suppose in an attempt to keep up with Europe, has recently enacted the “California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)…, a new data privacy law that applies to certain businesses which collect personal information from California residents. The new law goes into effect on January 1, 2020.”

Now no less an authority figure than Google itself tells me I have to “prepare for CCPA,” ostensibly by enabling some form of restricted data processing. Which, of course, Google has already done pursuant to the “General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe.”

Okay. Whatever. I’m just trying to pass along information about writing and publishing here, okay? And every now and then (much less often than every blue moon) I sell my copyediting service or a book or whatever. I honestly don’t know how many Californians or other Europeans have bought any of those services or booka or how they might have suffered as a result of doing so. Mea culpa.

Google further says I can “refer to this article for more information on restricted data processing and to determine whether restricted data processing meets [my] CCPA compliance needs.” I didn’t even realize I had any compliance needs. Go figure. But better safe than sorry.

I didn’t read the article, but I included the link in case you need a good snooze fest. In the meantime, to be as certain as I can be that I am compliant with everybody’s rules, I’m considering posting the following notice at the end of every edition of the Journal forthwith:

Note: By continuing as a subscriber to The Daily Journal at HEStanbrough.com and/or to the weekly blog (Pro Writers Blog) at HarveyStanbrough.com, you agree that nothing in either blog or on either website is violating your rights under either the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in California. If you suspect or believe your consumer rights are being violated by the content of either website listed in this paragraph, please either unsubscribe directly or email me at harveystanbrough@gmail.com and I will unsubscribe you. Thanks. (Note that I personally “collect” no personal information, although I suppose MailChimp does collect your email address so it can email you these free blog posts. I, on the other hand, barely know from one day to the next what day it is and I have my own information to look after, so why would I want yours? Finally, if you are feeling litigious, please note that I have very few pockets and no money in any of them. Just sayin’.)

Then again, maybe I won’t.
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Today went about like the topic above reads, except that I had a delightful meeting with an excellent writer. So at least there was that.

Talk with you again soon.

Of Interest

See “Tinker, Tailor, Wizard, Spy: The Joys (and Dangers) of Blending Genre Elements” at https://crimereads.com/blending-genre/.

See “Copy Edits and Good News” at https://killzoneblog.com/2019/11/copy-edits-and-good-news.html.

See “Louis L’Amour and the Legend of the West” at https://crimereads.com/louis-lamour-and-the-legend-of-the-west/.

The Numbers

Fiction words today…………………… 0
Nonfiction words today…………… 520 (Journal)

Total fiction words for the month……… 6481
Total fiction words for the year………… 391574
Total nonfiction words for the month… 13830
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 294910
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 686484

Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date…………………… 7
Calendar Year 2019 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date… 4
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 43
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 197
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31