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Despite intensive lobbying from industry groups, multiple amendments before its effective date, and extensive proposed regulations from the California attorney general, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect earlier this month with still many questions left unanswered:

Continue Reading Proposed CCPA amendment would provide significant clarity to health care and life sciences companies

Late last week, the California legislature approved five bills intended to clarify the scope and required compliance obligations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA or the Act). Organizations now have just over three months to determine whether they need to comply with the newly amended CCPA, assess what their obligations are, and implement the policies, procedures, and operational changes necessary to comply with the law.

Five amendments passed: AB 25, AB 874, AB 1146, AB 1355, and AB 1564. Significant impacts of the amendments that were enacted include:

  • The amendments clarify that, at least for 2020, this consumer privacy law will apply to personal information of employees, job applicants, and contractors and personal information collected through certain business-to-business interactions but only in certain respects.
  • The amendments add flexibility to the processes that businesses may use for receiving and verifying consumer access and deletion requests.
  • The amendments exclude from CCPA applicability certain processing of consumer report data is already governed by the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act.
  • The amendments clarify how encryption and redaction may play into the private right of action for data breaches.
  • The amendments confirm that properly deidentified or aggregate data is not personal information under the Act.

Continue Reading Last minute amendments likely finalize CCPA language for January 1 deadline.

Last week, the California Assembly’s Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection, which exercises jurisdiction over privacy and personal information protection matters, approved several amendment bills intended to clarify and narrow the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA or the Act). In January 2020, the CCPA will impose landmark burdens and obligations on businesses…