California’s state secretary along with many other state secretaries impose a Google reCAPTCHA on people trying to lookup a business’s registration records. This forces everyone to perform uncompensated forced labor for a private privacy-offending tech giant. Google reCAPTCHA has been found responsible to have forced 819 million manhours of labor of a 13 year span.

So new rule:

• If a CAPTCHA is used as a barrier to access public information and the public makes a Freedom of Information Act request, it must be fulfilled at no cost and even postal costs must be covered by the agency doing the processing.