California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Job Applicants, Consumer Privacy Rights

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

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

California Consumer Privacy Act FAQs: Employment Information

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/28/2022

1. What’s changing? Under the current version of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), an employer’s obligations related to the personal information it collects from employees, applicants, and contractors residing...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 Senate Proposes Bill to Extend Certain CCPA Exemptions

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 7/9/2020

At present, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has “temporary” (and limited) exemptions for the application of portions of the CCPA to personal data collected in the course of business-to-business transactions...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

CCPA Is Here, And It Does Have Requirements For Employees, Applicants, etc.

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/2/2020

Some business leaders and HR professionals may be waking up this morning not realizing they must provide a “Notice at Collection” to some or all of their employees and applicants under the new California Consumer Privacy Act...more

CCPA QOTD: What are the employee/applicant and “business to business” exemptions?

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 12/20/2019

Because the term “consumer” is so broad in the CCPA (remember: it’s any California resident), it would have applied to employee and job applicant data and all business contact information across the board. After much...more

Hedge Fund Firms – What Do You Need to Consider Under the CCPA?

Proskauer Rose LLP on 12/13/2019

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) will take effect on January 1, 2020, and hedge fund firms may be subject to the CCPA even if they are already compliant with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), do not have a...more

CCPA Amendment Details to Consider

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/8/2019

In delving deeply into the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the Amendments recently signed by the California Governor, and the proposed Regulations issued by the California Attorney General, there are some details that...more

How Two New CCPA Amendments Impact Business Compliance Obligations

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 11/7/2019

In June 2018, California broke new ground when it was the first state in the nation to enact a comprehensive data privacy law. The new law, called the California Consumer Privacy Act, gives Californians significant new...more

Deadline Looms for Employers to Provide CCPA Notices

Troutman Pepper on 10/29/2019

As we have reported previously, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will take effect on January 1, 2020. On or before that date, businesses that employ California residents, retain California residents as independent...more

California Consumer Privacy Act Update: California Legislature Provides Relief for Businesses Processing Employee Data

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 10/4/2019

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) imposes significant protections for California residents covered by the law, and significant burdens for companies required to comply with it. One area of concern is whether the CCPA...more

Employees Will Be Exempted from Most Requirements of the Amended California Consumer Privacy Act … For Now

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 9/24/2019

In an effort to give consumers more control over the data businesses collect from and about them, the California legislature passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in 2018 (and amended it a few months later). The...more

California CCPA Amendment Update: Here’s What Passed

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 9/20/2019

The California legislature passed six amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that are on their way to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk. The Governor has until October 13, 2019, to act on the amendments. ...more

Bill to Exclude Employees From CCPA Moves Through California Legislature

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/7/2019

On May 29, 2019, the California State Assembly passed Assembly Bill 25. The bill now moves to the state senate for a vote....more

California Assembly Approves Amendments to Exclude Employees from CCPA, Protect Loyalty Programs

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 5/31/2019

On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the California Assembly voted to approve four bills to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The legislation now moves to the California Senate....more

Proposed Amendment to California Consumer Privacy Act Would Exclude Employees

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/16/2019

As the January 1, 2020, effective date for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) draws closer, California lawmakers are still attempting to refine the law. In the latest proposed amendment, Assembly Bill 25, employees...more

Another California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 Amendment—Employees and/or Job Applicants Are Not Consumers

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 4/15/2019

A few weeks ago, I pondered whether the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) is still a bit of a work in progress with the introduction of a proposed amendment. Recently, another amendment was proposed by Assembly...more

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