California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Employee Privacy Rights, Consumer Privacy Rights

Investigative Sweep of Employers’ CCPA Compliance by the California Attorney General

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/4/2023

The California Attorney General recently announced an initiative to investigate employers’ non-compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act/California Privacy Rights Act (collectively the CCPA)....more

Top 5 Takeaways from CPPA Meeting on July 14, 2023

BakerHostetler on 7/24/2023

On Friday, July 14, 2023, on the heels of the California Attorney General’s (AG) announcement seeking information from California employers on their compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California...more

California Employers Beware: Your 5-Step Plan as Attorney General Announces CCPA Investigative Sweep

Fisher Phillips on 7/20/2023

California employers, beware: the state’s top prosecutor just announced his office is conducting an investigative sweep of whether and how large California employers have complied with data privacy and consumer protection...more

California Attorney General Launches CCPA Investigative Sweep for Employers

Alston & Bird on 7/19/2023

On July 14, 2023, California Attorney General Rob Bonta launched investigations into large California employers regarding their compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) as it relates to their...more

CCPA-Covered Businesses Be On the Look Out for a Letter from the California Attorney General

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 7/14/2023

Though enforcement of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) which amended the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been paused for now, the State of California is not resting when it comes to compliance with the...more

Processing employees' Data Access Requests ("DARs") under the CCPA

Greenberg Glusker LLP on 2/24/2023

Brief Background - On January 1, 2023, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA") became applicable to the personal information of employees, job applicants, subcontractors, contractors, and others in work roles...more

CCPA Will Now Fully Regulate Personnel and B2B Information

Latham & Watkins LLP on 9/14/2022

Businesses will need to take additional steps to ensure compliance as exemptions under the California Consumer Privacy Act expire at the end of 2022. The California legislature adjourned its 2022 session without...more

CPRA Countdown: What employers need to know about the CPRA's potential impact on litigation - This is the eighth installment in...

Hogan Lovells on 9/8/2022

To date, employee data has been largely exempt from the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). However, effective January 1, 2023, the Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), will remove the...more

Businesses Need To Revamp And Revise CCPA Notices As 2020 Comes To A Close

Fisher Phillips on 11/20/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all manner of business procedures over the course of this past year, but one area you may not immediately recognize that needs to be immediately addressed relates to mandatory privacy...more

Riding the Privacy Wave: California Privacy Rights Act & Its Impact on Employers

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 11/9/2020

California voters resoundingly approved Prop 24, also known as the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) and CCPA 2.0—yet again shaking up California’s privacy laws and making California the epicenter for digital privacy...more

California DOJ Announces A Third Set Of Modifications To The CCPA Regulations

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/13/2020

Back in August, after much anticipation and several rounds of review and modification, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations finally became effective. This was long awaited by businesses and their service...more

The CCPA’s “B2B” Exemption Is Also Extended By Governor Newsom

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/5/2020

By signing AB 1281 into law on September 29th, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom amended the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to extend until January 1, 2022, not only the current exemption on employee personal...more

California Update: Governor Signs One Privacy Bill and Vetoes Another

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 10/2/2020

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 1281 to extend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) “exemptions” for business-to-business (B2B) and employee personal information. The exemption was headed for a...more

One More Year: Attorney General Issues Final Regulations as CA Legislature Delays Some Compliance Obligations

Proskauer on Privacy on 9/16/2020

Qualifying businesses have another year to complying with certain, major provisions of the CCPA. The CCPA, or the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, is a California law that gives California consumers, defined broadly...more

CA AB 1281 Passes CA Legislature

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/14/2020

On August 30 the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Sunset Extension Bill, AB-1281, passed 63-0. The bill, which was introduced in early 2019, has passed through committee and chambers in the state of California,...more

California Assembly Passes CCPA Amendment: Employee Personal Information Exemption Extension

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/10/2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) has only been in effect since January, but amendments are already on the horizon. Personal information in the employment context was highly contested during the CCPA’s amendment...more

California Bill Extending Employment and B2B Compliance Obligations for CCPA Heads to Governor Newsom's Desk

Carlton Fields on 9/3/2020

A bill that would extend California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance obligations for employment information and business-to-business information has passed through both chambers of the California Legislature and has...more

CA Businesses Poised to Have CCPA Compliance Deadline Extended for B2B and Employee Data

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 9/1/2020

The California legislature has passed AB 1281 to the Governor’s desk for signature and, given the absence of legislative opposition, it appears the bill is now well positioned to be signed into law. AB-1281 extends by one...more

CCPA Employee and Business-to-Business Exemptions Passed out of Legislature

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 8/31/2020

The California Legislature has passed AB-1281 over to the Governor’s desk, approving the continuation of an exemption for personal information collected in the employment context and certain information collected in the...more

CCPA Update: Legislature Extends Business-To-Business And Employee Exemptions For One Year

Husch Blackwell LLP on 8/31/2020

On August 30, 2020, the California legislature passed Assembly Bill 1281, which extends the CCPA’s business-to-business and employee exemptions by one year until January 1, 2022. The bill now moves to the California...more

Does the CCPA apply to the personal information of employees?

BCLP on 7/28/2020

Yes. The CCPA applies to personal information held about “consumers” – a term which is defined as referring to any resident of California. As a result, if a business is governed by the CCPA, the rights conferred by the...more

CCPA: The Other Problem With A Capital “C”

Greenberg Glusker LLP on 7/11/2020

With the all-encompassing distraction of keeping up with the evolving COVID-related guidances, ordinances, and regulations, many employers have forgotten the other looming problem with a capital “C” – California Consumer...more

5 Data Privacy Insights in the Time of COVID-19

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 7/9/2020

As businesses around the globe prepared to meet the demands of new data privacy laws and regulations in 2020, the world was thrown a curveball in the form of COVID-19....more

California Privacy Rights Act: Latest Update, Impact and Next Steps

Polsinelli on 7/4/2020

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) is a ballot initiative that, if passed in November, will significantly amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)....more

California Privacy Law Update—CCPA Enforcement Begins July 1, 2020

Greenberg Glusker LLP on 6/29/2020

As previously announced, the California Attorney General’s Office (“Cal AG”) will begin enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which came into effect on January 1, 2020, on July 1st. The Cal AG has...more

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