CCPA

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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Privacy Policies and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

June 6, 2019 On June 28, 2018, California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), a groundbreaking, consumer-friendly, privacy law unlike any predecessor in the United States.  The California Consumer Privacy Act will impact almost all US-based businesses that collect consumer data from California State residents, as well as companies that provide assistance in connection

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Comparing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

October 15, 2018 On June 28, 2018, California passed the most comprehensive and consumer-friendly privacy law in the United States: the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).  In many respects, the framework of the CCPA is similar to the Europe Union’s recently enacted General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). While many businesses took measures to comply with

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Does the California Consumer Privacy Act Apply to Your Business?

August 1, 2018  On June 28, 2018, California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which will go into effect on January 1, 2020. Previously, we discussed how the CCPA will regulate how businesses should handle consumers’ personal data. However, before businesses prepare for CCPA compliance, they should first determine whether the CCPA even applies

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