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Earlier this year, when Gov. Gavin Newsom gave his wide-ranging State of the State address, he floated an idea that built upon last year’s passage of a sweeping new consumer privacy act.

“I applaud this Legislature for passing the first-in-the-nation digital privacy law,” he said in the speech. “But California’s consumers should also be able to share in the wealth that is created from their data. And so, I’ve asked my team to develop a proposal for a new Data Dividend for Californians.”

It’s not a totally new concept, and the particulars have yet to be decided.

Still, it seems as if every day, a new symptom of tech-driven inequality emerges. And the idea that the companies profiting most from consumers’ personal information should be forced to share the bounty holds an obvious appeal.

“What I’m ecstatic about is that one of the challenges in government is we’re generally slow and look backward — we don’t look forward,” State Senator Bob Hertzberg, a co-author of the California Consumer Privacy Act, told me recently. “And this gives us an opportunity to do that in a very big way.”