California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Data Privacy, Right To Know

Summary of California Consumer Rights and Business Deadlines for Responding to Privacy-Related Requests

Fisher Phillips on 5/25/2023

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California consumers may exercise certain rights in relation to their personal information – and businesses have strict deadlines to respond to such consumer requests. These...more

California Employers Take Heed – Employees Will Have Rights Surrounding Their Personal Information

Buchalter on 9/7/2022

Last week, the California Legislature failed to reach agreement on an extension to the employee exemption which applies to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which currently exempts employees and employee data from...more

Internal Inferences Must Be Disclosed to Consumers Under CCPA

Woods Rogers on 4/18/2022

In an opinion released on March 10, 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta addressed the applicability of the “right to know” under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) (pdf) to internal inferences that...more

CCPA Covered Businesses Must Disclose Most Inferences Drawn from Consumers’ Personal Information

Fisher Phillips on 3/16/2022

While it is clear that the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) imposes certain disclosure obligations on businesses regarding concrete personal information collected about consumers, businesses often forget that they also...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

CPRA Series: New, Expanded And Modified Consumer Rights

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 11/30/2020

On November 3, 2020, Californians approved another significant piece of privacy rights legislation, the California Privacy Rights Act, or the CPRA. The CPRA amends and expands the already (almost) infamous CCPA (California...more

The CCPA Is Live for Enforcement—Is Your Website in Compliance?

Hanzo on 11/23/2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—the most comprehensive personal data privacy legislation anywhere in the United States so far—is officially being enforced. Is your website in compliance? Does it need to be? What...more

The Past as Prologue: California Voters Approve CPRA as AG Proposes New CCPA Regulations

Dechert LLP on 11/13/2020

On November 3, 2020, California voters passed Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Crafted to address perceived gaps in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the CPRA effectively calcifies the law...more

Sensitive Personal Information – What Is It and What Does It Mean for California Privacy Rights Act Compliance?

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/13/2020

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) expands the definition of personal information as it currently exists in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CPRA adds “sensitive personal information” as a defined term,...more

California Passes Prop 24 to Amend and Expand Consumers’ Privacy Rights

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP on 11/12/2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) created groundbreaking new rules for how businesses must handle California consumers’ personal data and spurred proposals for similar legislation across the country. ...more

California Extends The Sunset Of The CCPA’s Employee & Business-To-Business Exemptions

Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP on 10/8/2020

On September 29, 2020, California Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1281 ("AB 1281") into law, which is good news for employers and those who engage in business-tobusiness ("B2B") transactions that fall within the scope of...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

7 Tips to Make Your Website CCPA Compliant

NAVEX on 8/19/2020

On Friday, California's Office of Administrative Law officially approved final regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), arguably the nation’s most comprehensive legislation governing the collection,...more

We're Getting Closer: AG Releases New Modified CCPA Draft Regulations

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass on 3/13/2020

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra wasted no time in issuing new modified draft regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), announcing new draft regulations on March 11, 2020 – just two weeks after...more

California AG Revises Proposed CCPA Regulations

Fisher Phillips on 2/21/2020

On February 10, 2020, the Attorney General issued revisions to the proposed regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the CCPA) which were originally published in October of last year. While the Attorney General...more

Understanding What the Revised Draft CCPA Regulations Mean for Business

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 2/21/2020

- The California Attorney General Office (AGO) issued revised proposed regulations (Version 2) regarding the California Consumer Privacy Act on February 7, 2020. The AGO will collect comments on the revised regulations until...more

CCPA’s Top 5 Compliance Challenges

NAVEX on 1/13/2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took effect on New Year’s Day. California is the first state in the union to create a data privacy law for its residents. Other states will follow soon. For compliance purposes,...more

CCPA Updates: California AG Releases Proposed Regulations

Snell & Wilmer on 12/2/2019

On October 11, 2019, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra signaled his enforcement priorities and released the long awaited proposed regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which was signed into...more

Countdown to the California Consumer Privacy Act: Key Components Every Business Should Be Aware Of

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 11/27/2019

On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) becomes effective, and businesses around the world will be responsible for handling the personal information of Californians in accordance with the requirements...more

Responding to Requests to Know - Morgan Lewis Practical Advice on Privacy: Guide to the CCPA

Morgan Lewis on 11/26/2019

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives consumers the right to request that a business (1) respond to a consumer with a list of the categories or specific pieces of personal information that the business has...more

CCPA: Understanding Data Privacy’s Pandora’s Box

NAVEX on 11/25/2019

As goes California, so goes the nation. Therefore, it is not surprising that the first state in the union to create a law to protect citizen privacy is California. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will take...more

Responding to Requests to Opt Out - Morgan Lewis Practical Advice on Privacy: Guide to the CCPA

Morgan Lewis on 11/22/2019

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives consumers the right to request that a business (1) respond to the consumer with a list of the categories or specific pieces of personal information that the business has...more

A Business Guide to the Draft CCPA Regulations

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/29/2019

• The Draft Regulations introduced by the California Attorney General’s Office on October 10, 2019 are subject to a public comment period and public hearings that will close on December 6, 2019. Now is the time to act to try...more

Analysis of Attorney General Regulations to the CCPA– Part 1: Notices to Consumers

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 10/17/2019

Overview: Article 2 (see pages 3 through 10) of the California Attorney General’s CCPA draft regulations specify certain notices that must be given to consumers at the time of collection of their personal information,...more

California Consumer Privacy Act: Potential Impact and Key Takeaways

Dechert LLP on 9/19/2018

The California legislature unanimously approved and California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) on June 28, 2018. The CCPA is arguably the most far-reaching data...more

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