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
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