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Summer Is Over – It’s CCPA and NV Crunch Time

Alan L. FrielBy Alan L. Friel on Posted in CCPA
It is less than 120 days until California’s ground-shifting new privacy regimen – the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) – goes into effect. There is only a week left for the Legislature to pass the handful of amendment bills that still survive, and we should have the attorney general’s proposed regulations published for public comment within … Continue Reading

CCPA Amendment Progress Report: July Update

Melinda L. McLellanTaylor A. BloomBy Melinda L. McLellan and Taylor A. Bloom on Posted in CCPA
As we reported in April, May and June, a number of potentially significant amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) continue to make their way through the state legislative process. Below we provide a summary of recent developments from earlier this month, including changes that may materially affect how businesses approach their CCPA compliance … Continue Reading

Attempt to Expand CCPA Private Right of Action Fails, While Bills Exempting Employee Data and Otherwise Refining CCPA Advance

Alan L. FrielNiloufar MassachiTaylor A. BloomBy Alan L. Friel, Niloufar Massachi and Taylor A. Bloom on Posted in CCPA
Over the past several weeks, the California State Assembly has voted in favor of advancing to the California Senate bills that would narrow the reach of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Senate bills did not fare as well and have died. Two of the CCPA amendment bills moving forward have the potential to greatly … Continue Reading

Ad and Publishing Industries Confront CCPA Challenges While Congress Considers Privacy

Alan L. FrielBy Alan L. Friel on Posted in CCPA
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), effective Jan. 1, 2020, will require more privacy transparency and choice for consumers than they have ever had under U.S. law, but its approach to providing consumers with the right to opt out of a sale of their personal information threatens to disrupt the third-party digital advertising ecosystem. Most … Continue Reading

Washington Privacy Act Dies in the House While California Continues to Consider Refinements to the CCPA

Shea M. LeitchNiloufar MassachiBy Shea M. Leitch and Niloufar Massachi on Posted in CCPA, Consumer Data
After passing the Senate nearly unanimously, the Washington Privacy Act (SB 5376) has stalled in the House of Representatives. The bill failed to achieve passage out of committee by the April 17 deadline for consideration of bills originating in the opposite house, and was returned to the Senate on April 28. As a result, SB … Continue Reading

California Assembly Privacy Committee Votes in Favor of Advancing CCPA Amendments

Alan L. FrielNiloufar MassachiBy Alan L. Friel and Niloufar Massachi on Posted in CCPA
Last Tuesday, the California Assembly’s Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection (Assembly Privacy Committee), which has jurisdiction over matters related to privacy, the protection of personal information and information technology, held a committee hearing in which it voted in favor of advancing eight industry-backed bills that would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), set … Continue Reading

Bill to Expand CCPA Private Right of Action Moves Forward

Alan L. FrielBy Alan L. Friel on Posted in CCPA
We have previously written about California SB 561 here, introduced by Senator Jackson (D) and supported by the California Attorney General (AG), that among other things would vastly expand the CCPA’s private right of action and remove the right to cure before the AG can seek civil penalties.  On April 9 the California Senate Judiciary Committee … Continue Reading

Additional California Bill, AB 25, Proposed to Further Amend the CCPA

Niloufar MassachiTaylor A. BloomAlan L. FrielBy Niloufar Massachi, Taylor A. Bloom and Alan L. Friel on Posted in CCPA
On March 25, Assembly Member Chau introduced Assembly Bill 25 (AB 25), which proposes to amend a section of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2020. This amendment would expressly exclude employees from the definition of a “consumer” under the CCPA. As currently drafted, the CCPA governs the … Continue Reading

The California Consumer Privacy Act: Frequently Asked Questions

Alan L. FrielMelinda L. McLellanBy Alan L. Friel, Laura E. Jehl and Melinda L. McLellan on Posted in CCPA
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a comprehensive new consumer protection law set to take effect on January 1, 2020. In the wake of the CCPA’s passage, approximately 15 other states introduced their own CCPA-like privacy legislation, and similar proposals are being considered at the federal level. Among the many differences between the CCPA … Continue Reading

California Sets Forth Further Legislation Imposing New Obligations on Companies

Alan L. FrielNiloufar MassachiBy Alan L. Friel and Niloufar Massachi on Posted in CCPA, Children’s Privacy, Consumer Data, GDPR
Over the past few weeks, California Republican lawmakers have introduced a new package of legislation called “Your Data, Your Way,” which would expand and strengthen consumer privacy rights beyond what is required by the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The “Your Data, Your Way” package is comprised of bills that would impose new obligations … Continue Reading

CCPA Expansion Proposed

Alan L. FrielTaylor A. BloomBy Alan L. Friel and Taylor A. Bloom on Posted in CCPA
On Monday, Feb. 25, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, together with Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D), announced Senate Bill 561 to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Most significantly, SB 561 would effectively eliminate the AG’s responsibility to provide guidance to businesses on how to comply with the CCPA while simultaneously expanding the right of … Continue Reading

Public Forums on the California Consumer Privacy Act Continue in Los Angeles – Rulemaking to Follow

Alan L. FrielNiloufar MassachiBy Alan L. Friel and Niloufar Massachi on Posted in CCPA
The public forums on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), held by the California Attorney General (AG) and the Department of Justice, continued on Friday, Jan. 25, in Los Angeles, California. At the forum, speakers had a brief opportunity to provide their comments on the CCPA. Prior to opening up the floor to members of … Continue Reading

First Public Forum on the California Consumer Privacy Act

Alan L. FrielTaylor A. BloomBy Alan L. Friel and Taylor A. Bloom on Posted in CCPA, State Legislation
The California Attorney General and the Department of Justice held the first public forum about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) on Tuesday, Jan. 8, in San Francisco. The public forums are part of the rulemaking process the attorney general’s office is undertaking pursuant to Section 1798.185 of the CCPA, which requires the attorney general … Continue Reading

The Weekly Privacy Rewind

By Aaron Lancaster on Posted in CCPA, Weekly Privacy Rewind
California Consumer Protection Act Privacy Groups Urge California Lawmakers Not to Weaken California Consumer Privacy Act • A variety of privacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Digital Privacy Alliance and the Center for Digital Democracy, sent a letter to California lawmakers asking them not to “push[] California backward” when it comes to privacy … Continue Reading

California Delays Privacy Law Enforcement and Congress Is Lobbied to Pre-empt the Law

Alan L. FrielBy Alan L. Friel on Posted in CCPA, State Legislation
This summer California enacted, effective Jan. 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a privacy law unprecedented in the U.S. that grants California residents a broad range of European-like privacy rights. Amendments passed as SB 1121 on Aug. 31 and signed into law by Gov. Brown on Sept. 23 extend the time for the California … Continue Reading

California Consumer Privacy Act: Navigating Consumer Lawsuits & Limiting Remedies

Paul KarlsgodtAlan L. FrielNiloufar MassachiBy Paul Karlsgodt, Alan L. Friel and Niloufar Massachi on Posted in CCPA, State Legislation
California’s new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA or act), which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2020, grants California residents (referred to as consumers in the act but not limited to consumers) a wide range of rights in regard to their personal information, broadly defined. To enable compliance with the act, … Continue Reading

SB-1121 Does Not Fix the CA Consumer Privacy Act, But Would Delay Enforcement

Alan L. FrielBy Alan L. Friel on Posted in CCPA, State Legislation
In response to controversies concerning consumers’ personal information, such as the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica controversy, and a California ballot initiative that qualified for the November ballot and proposed the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA Initiative”), the legislature in California responded with AB-375, which proposed an alternative version of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. The … Continue Reading

Not Too Early to Start to Prepare for New California Privacy Law

Alan L. FrielNiloufar MassachiBy Alan L. Friel and Niloufar Massachi on Posted in CCPA, Privacy Litigation, State Legislation
In late June, the California legislature signed into law Assembly Bill 375 (AB 375) as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), a privacy law, unprecedented in the U.S., that grants California residents a broad range of European-like rights when it comes to their personal information (PI), effective Jan. 1, 2020. To be able … Continue Reading

California Passes Groundbreaking Data Privacy Law Granting Consumers Expansive Privacy Rights

Alan L. FrielNiloufar MassachiBy Alan L. Friel and Niloufar Massachi on Posted in Advertising, Behavioral Advertising, CCPA, Marketing
California has passed an unprecedented privacy law that protects consumers’ rights by providing them with a greater degree of transparency and choice with respect to their personal information online. On June 28, 2018, Assembly Bill 375 was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) just hours … Continue Reading
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