CCPA compliance

CCPA Amended to Require California Data Broker Registration

September 23, 2019 On September 13, 2019, the California State Legislature passed Assembly Bill No. 1202 (the “Bill”), amending the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to require certain businesses to register as data brokers with the State Attorney General’s Office. The Legislature believes that a California data broker registry will provide greater transparency on the […]

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CCPA Compliance Preparation – Must all Businesses Comply?

September 13, 2019 As readers of this blog well know, on January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) will go into effect. Businesses must be prepared to comply with the CCPA in order to avoid civil penalties of up to seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per violation. The first step in that

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CCPA Compliance: Consumer Information Requests, Data Mapping and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

July 8, 2019 Similar to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) grants consumers the right to submit an information request to (and obtain certain information from) businesses with respect to how those businesses collect, store, process, use and share the subject consumers’ personal information.  Under the statute, in

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CCPA Compliance: Service Provider Agreements and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

June 26, 2019 Although the CCPA is not due to go into effect until January 1, 2020, businesses should take the necessary steps to ensure full CCPA compliance well ahead of that date. By way of background, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) is a consumer-friendly privacy law that mirrors the EU’s General Data Protection

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