California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released yesterday a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Action and Proposed Regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act. The Attorney General will hold four public hearings to address these regulations on December 2, 3, 4, and 5, 2019. The written comment period will then end on December 6, 2019. These regulations are intended […]
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California Passes Several Amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act
The California legislature passed several amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.100 to 1798.190) (the “CCPA”) on September 13, 2019. (For additional background, see Which CCPA Amendments Made the Cut? and Potential Changes to the CCPA; California Senate Considers Amendments). These amendments will soon head to Governor Newsom’s desk for […]
The CCPA Could Reset Data Breach Litigation Risks
A&B Abstract: While much has been written about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the focus has primarily been on the new rights it affords California consumers to have access to and control use of their data and opt out of many transfers to third parties. While this is a sea change in data privacy […]
Potential Changes to the CCPA; California Senate Considers Amendments
On April 30, we detailed several proposed amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) that were advancing in the State Assembly (see our previous blog post here). Since then, a number of the proposed amendments passed the Assembly and moved to the California Senate, where they remain under consideration. This past week the Judiciary […]