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
On January 1, 2023, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) went into full force and effect, heralding a new era of statewide personal information (PI) regulation. The CPRA provides even more protection for California...more
With the holidays upon us, companies are assessing year-end to-do’s and considering what 2023 will bring. For companies employing California residents, compliance with the new California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) should be at...more
The so-called “HR exemption” taking employee and applicant personal information out of the control of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is about to come to an end. Employers who are “businesses” for purposes of the...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) exemptions for employee and business-to-business Personal Information (PI) likely will not be extended. Aug. 31, 2022 was the last day for each house to pass bills, per the...more
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
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
In the first of its kind “opinion” from the California Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”), the agency addressed the question of whether a consumer’s “right to know” what personal information a business holds about the...more
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Situation: Four months after releasing the initial draft proposed regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") of 2018, the California Attorney General ("Attorney General") issued modifications to these...more
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
- 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
On Friday, February 7, 2020, California’s Attorney General’s Office released revisions to the proposed regulations (the “Modified Draft Regulations”) for the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). The CCPA is a...more
On February 10, 2020, the California Attorney General published revisions to the proposed regulations (Revised Regulations) to implement the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). The changes largely clarify and...more
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