The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), touted as the toughest privacy act in the country, went into effect on July 1, 2020. Although the enforcement regulations have been tweaked three times during the last year, this week California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (AG) issued the final set of rules that his office will use to
What Does 2020 Have in Store for CCPA Enforcement and Litigation?
By Kathryn Rattigan on
While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect on January 1st of this year, the California Attorney General submitted the final draft of proposed regulations only last month. With the CCPA’s inclusion of a private right of action for California residents to seek actual or statutory damages if their personal information has been…
CCPA Enforcement Looms
By Linn Foster Freedman on
We have previously alerted our readers about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into effect on January 1, 2020. CCPA is one of the strictest consumer privacy laws in the U.S. and is broadly applicable [view related posts].
Although CCPA went into effect on January 1, 2020, enforcement by the California Attorney…
CCPA Final Proposed Regulations Filed
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
The California Attorney General submitted the final proposed California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations on June 1, 2020 to the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) for review. According to the Attorney General’s submission, OAL has thirty working days to review the regulations, plus an additional sixty calendar days under the Governor’s Executive Order N-40-20…
CCPA 2.0 May Be Heading for the November Ballot in California
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
The consumer group Californians for Consumer Privacy announced on May 4, 2020, that it was submitting well over 900,000 signatures to qualify the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) for the November 2020 ballot.
This new ballot initiative, which can be reviewed here, creates some additional consumer privacy rights and expands some areas already included…
Businesses and Trade Groups Seek Delay in CCPA Enforcement Actions
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
Recently businesses and advertising trade groups wrote a letter to the California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to request delayed enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The letter cited the current health crisis as a result of COVID-19 and a state of national emergency as the…
California Attorney General Releases Additional Modifications to Draft CCPA Regulations
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
On March 11, 2020, the California Attorney General released the second set of modifications to the draft California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations. This set of modifications contains deletions to language that was included in the February modifications to the regulations as well as some new language. Notable changes include the deletions of the “do…
Litigation Case Claims Violation of CCPA Under Statutory Private Right of Action
By Linn Foster Freedman on
One of the most significant consumer rights offered by the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is what we call the “private right of action” afforded by the law. A private right of action under a law basically means that if someone violates the law and a person is damaged, the person can assert a…
The Washington Privacy Act – Re-Introduced for 2020 – Is it the Best of CCPA and GDPR?
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
Washington legislators recently introduced the Washington Privacy Act (WPA). This legislation is a consumer-focused privacy law similar to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) but it also has some European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-like concepts. The WPA protects personal data in much the same way as the CCPA, but with some significant differences.…
California Attorney General Releases Modified Draft CCPA Regulations
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
On February 10, 2020, the California Attorney General’s Office released modified California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations. There are some notable differences in the regulations from the first draft, which can be seen in this redlined version. This article will highlight some of the new language added in the latest draft of the regulations.
What’s…