Yuri Nagano, Author at San Francisco Public Press

Yuri Nagano

Yuri Nagano is a San Francisco Bay Area-based business journalist. She has edited and reported in print and broadcast for news organizations including Bloomberg Industry Group, KQED, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, International New York Times, a Financial Times-related publication, The Economist and Public Radio International. She started her career as a staff producer for Japan’s public broadcasting network NHK, where she won awards for her TV programs. She has served as a board member for the Asian American Journalists Association since 2010. She enjoys hiking and practicing yoga in her free time. Follow her on Twitter @yurinagano.

consumer reporting

Consumer Reporting Firms Fought for a Year to Exempt Data From California Privacy Law

02.13.2020

By Yuri Nagano

Even though federally regulated consumer reports were already exempted from California’s ambitious new privacy law, the companies that sell them spent much of the last year engaged in an as yet unsuccessful lobbying effort to prevent individuals from opting out of sharing their own data from the firms’ databases. That’s in part because they have diversified beyond consumer reports and credit scores and into the creation of personal profiles based on online information that is less well regulated and critics of the industry call intrusive.

Data Privacy

New State Law Pits Privacy Against Free Speech, Public Records and Data Brokers

07.01.2019

By Yuri Nagano

Though consumers may ask companies to delete or stop collecting data about them, the First Amendment and open-records statutes may thwart their efforts to get people-search sites to delete data after the law takes effect in January. Information brokers argue that the data they post comes from government entities and is publicly available.

Data Privacy

California Attorney General Plans Few Privacy Law Enforcement Actions, Telling Consumers to Take Violators to Court

05.15.2019

By Yuri Nagano

Attorney General Xavier Becerra says his office is ill equipped to prosecute violations of the state’s landmark data-privacy law, which takes effect in January. Only a handful of the most egregious cases will be handled per year. Instead, he wants aggrieved consumers to take violators to court on their own.