On December 10, 2020, the California Attorney General proposed a fourth set of modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations, in response to comments received regarding the October proposed modifications. (We had written about the October proposals here.)
The US elections on November 3, 2020 included three states with privacy-related ballot initiatives: California, Massachusetts, and Michigan. Voters supported all three initiatives.
On October 10, 2019, with just weeks to go until the law goes into effect, the California Attorney General released the long-awaited draft regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
The proposed rules shed light on how the California AG is interpreting and will be enforcing key sections of the CCPA. In the press release announcing the proposed regulations, Attorney General Becerra described CCPA as “[providing] consumers with groundbreaking new rights on the use of their personal information” and added, “It’s time we had control over the use of our personal data.”
On August 12, the California legislature returns after its summer recess. Starting with the Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing today, the legislature will now have approximately a month to continue the markups and send California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) amendments to the Governor’s desk for signature before the September 13 deadline. As previously reported, any amendment that passes from the Senate will likely need to go back to the Assembly since many of them have been marked up significantly by the Senate. Below is a summary of the seven amendments that are moving forward and what they mean for businesses who are working on implementing a CCPA program. Click here for our previous coverage of AB 25 (employee exception), AB 846 (customer loyalty program), and AB 1564 (consumer request methods).
On January 25, 2019, the California Attorney General’s Office held a public forum in Los Angeles to solicit feedback on the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) as it prepares to draft regulations which must be adopted on or before July 1, 2020.
This is the Data Protection Report’s sixth post in a series of CCPA blog posts that will break down the major elements of the CCPA. Stay tuned for additional CCPA posts.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), California’s new privacy law which takes effect on January 1, 2020, requires the Attorney General to adopt implementing regulations that further the objectives of the CCPA. Much concern has been raised about the law as currently written, including by Attorney General Xavier Becerra himself. With regulations set to be issued on or before July 1, 2020, the Attorney General’s Office will host six public forums to give key stakeholders an opportunity to provide feedback on the law and help shape the implementing regulations.
This is the Data Protection Report’s fifth post in a series of CCPA blog posts that will break down the major elements of the CCPA, which will culminate in a webinar on the CCPA in October. This blog focuses on covered entities. Stay tuned for additional blogs and information about our upcoming webinar on the CCPA.
Following Europe’s lead and some recent high profile scandals involving the use of personal information, California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act which goes into effect on January 1, 2020. (You can find our coverage of it here.) The law, the first of its kind in the US, is an omnibus privacy law for the state of California that grants individuals new rights in connection with their data – including, the right to erasure.
This is the Data Protection Report’s fourth blog posts in a series of CCPA blog posts that will break down the major elements of the CCPA, which will culminate in a webinar on the CCPA in October. Stay tuned for additional blogs and information about our upcoming webinar on the CCPA.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA” or “Act”) includes significant and new disclosure requirements for businesses that collect and or sell or disclose California residents’ personal information. Below we have outlined: (1) disclosures businesses must make in their privacy policy; (2) disclosures businesses must make upon receipt of a “verifiable consumer request”; and (3) Norton Rose Fulbright’s takeaways.
Upon the CCPA taking effect, a business’s privacy policy must affirmatively inform consumers of the categories of personal information collected about the consumer, the sources from which that information is collected, the commercial or business purpose for which the personal information is collected, the categories of third parties the information will be shared with, and specific pieces of personal information collected about the consumer. In addition, businesses must provide consumers with a description of their rights. Businesses should be cognizant that the Act specifically prohibits businesses from collecting additional categories of personal information and then using those new categories for purposes other than as disclosed.
This is the Data Protection Report’s third blog post in a series of CCPA blog posts that will break down the major elements of the CCPA which will culminate in a webinar on the CCPA in October. This blog focuses on the CCPA’s broad definition of Personal Information. Stay tuned for additional blogs and information about our upcoming webinar on the CCPA.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA” or the “Act”) sets a new precedent with its sweeping definition of Personal Information (“PI”). The CCPA defines “[p]ersonal information” as any information that “identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.”
This is the Data Protection Report’s second post in a series of blog posts that will break down the major elements of the CCPA which will culminate in a webinar on the CCPA in October. This blog focuses on covered entities. Stay tuned for additional posts and information about our upcoming webinar on the CCPA.
California’s new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants California residents extensive new privacy rights. One of the more significant aspects of the law however, is the number of business entities to which it applies. Companies around the world must comply with the CCPA if they do business in California, collect consumers’ personal information, and determine the purposes and means of processing that information. Companies must also meet one of three criteria: (a) have annual gross revenue in excess of $25 million; (b) buy, receive, or sell personal information of at least 50,000 California consumers, households, or devices; or (c) derive at least 50% of its annual revenue from selling California consumers’ personal information. Consumer is defined as a natural person who is a California resident. The new rules may also apply to parent companies and subsidiaries that share common branding with the business.