California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Data Privacy, Data Retention

How Much Data is Too Much? 4 Steps Businesses Should Take as California Focuses On Data Minimization Requirements

Fisher Phillips on 4/15/2024

Businesses take heed: California state officials just warned that the law prohibits you from collecting unnecessary data and retaining data for longer than necessary. The California Privacy Protection Agency published its...more

Peekaboo: How To Continue Preparations for Brave New (Data Privacy) World

DarrowEverett LLP on 9/28/2023

On September 12, 2023, Delaware became the 13th state to adopt a consumer data privacy act, joining Florida, another state to recently adopt consumer privacy laws, and others in providing resident consumers with rights...more

The best data retention policy template to get you started (Updated)

Onna Technologies, Inc. on 8/14/2023

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in October 2020 and has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. They say more is better. And that’s true in many cases, but not when we’re talking about a stockpile...more

7 Steps to Comply with the CCPA

Fisher Phillips on 5/25/2023

Getting into compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can seem like an overwhelming task. After all, the law is comprised not only of a dense statute and detailed regulations, but the amendment effective...more

Will Employers Have More Obligations Beyond the CCPA if these California Privacy Bills Pass?

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 6/1/2022

California employers have navigated the ever-changing privacy landscape when it comes to employee and personnel personal information (“human resources data”). For years, California employers’ obligations were narrow in scope...more

California Privacy Rights Act for Employers: The New “Notice at Collection” California Employers Must Distribute to the Workforce

Littler on 1/26/2022

This is the third in a series of articles about the implications of the California Privacy Rights Act for employers. - On January 1, 2023, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) will go into effect and California...more

CPRA Countdown: It's time to brush up on California's latest data privacy law

Bracewell LLP on 12/20/2021

On November 3, 2020, California voters approved Proposition 24, a ballot initiative which enacted the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). The CPRA amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the most sweeping...more

Build A Data Inventory That Benefits Everyone

Ankura on 5/27/2021

A data inventory is the fundamental building block for an effective privacy program. In its simplest form, a data inventory can be thought of as a matrix which documents 1) what personal data is being collected by the...more

Data Collection Class Actions On The Rise: Consider Your Privacy Compliance

Amundsen Davis LLC on 2/25/2021

Technology is moving at the speed of light while we all continue to live in a largely virtual world where we interface with each other, online, everyday. Sprinkled in are continued concerns about how companies, large and...more

California Approves Even Tougher Privacy Laws

Morgan Lewis on 11/11/2020

A majority of California voters approved the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) on November 3. The CPRA expands provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), creates new consumer privacy rights,...more

CPRA Passes, Further Bolstering Privacy Regulations and Requirements in California

ArentFox Schiff on 11/10/2020

The CPRA, also referred to as CCPA 2.0, is a more robust version of the CCPA. The original drafter of the CCPA put CPRA on the ballot to amend and bolster key provisions in the CCPA....more

Businesses Nationwide Face New Privacy Obligations Thanks To California Vote

Fisher Phillips on 11/5/2020

Californians just passed a ballot measure that will soon expand the nation’s most stringent data privacy law – and it will have an impact on employers across the country. By voting in favor of Proposition 24 – the California...more

How to Maintain CCPA Compliance in the Cloud

Onna Technologies, Inc. on 10/2/2020

As more organizations find themselves under scrutiny for the way they collect and use consumer data, maintaining CCPA compliance has never been more important. CCPA has been introduced to give control back to consumers,...more

Why the Connection Between Biometric Data and eDiscovery Will Continue to Grow

Reveal on 9/1/2020

Everyone has been talking about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) lately, namely because the 2018 law became enforceable as of July 1, 2020. This law provides California consumers with a number of privacy-related...more

Data Privacy Is Not a Law, It’s a Lifestyle

NAVEX on 2/10/2020

The words “hodgepodge” and “patchwork” are overused in the world of risk and compliance, but they’re certainly appropriate for describing the myriad data privacy regulations popping up around the world. In 2018, the world...more

Though CCPA Is Now Live, Questions Concerning Its Constitutionality Linger

McDermott Will & Emery on 1/10/2020

As businesses have scrambled to obtain compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in recent months, questions surrounding its constitutionality have arisen. As a broad, sometimes unclear state law that imposes...more

CCPA Advent: Waiting on the World to Change

Hudson Cook, LLP on 12/23/2019

January 1, 2020, opens both a new decade and a new landscape in privacy regulation in the United States. On that day, the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, is set to become effective. The law will be the first of its...more

What Employers Should Know About the California Consumer Privacy Act Taking Effect January 1, 2020

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 10/3/2019

On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a consumer-friendly privacy law inspired by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, is set to take effect. The CCPA is aimed towards bolstering...more

Weekly Trend Report – 3/27/2019 Insights

Association of Certified E-Discovery... on 3/29/2019

Insight into where e-discovery, information governance cybersecurity, and digital transformation are heading – who is doing what now or in the future, what works and what doesn’t, and what people wish they could do but can’t...more

Podcast: Cybersecurity and the Boardroom

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/20/2019

In this episode, the third of three building on Akin Gump’s annual Top 10 Topics for Directors report, partner Michelle Reed discusses the critical question of cybersecurity and the corporate world. Among the topics covered: ...more

Jones Day Presents: Effect of GDPR, CCPA, and FTC on Blockchains

Jones Day on 3/13/2019

Partner Jay Johnson discusses the effect of various regulations on blockchains. He notes that the GDPR presents compliance obligations on data controllers, the CCPA allows consumers a right to erasure, and the FTC has notice...more

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