California lawmakers wrapped up this year’s legislative session, passing roughly 900 bills this year. Among those were only a few privacy initiatives, which we outline below. ...more
In a first-of-its-kind ruling interpreting the CCPA, a federal judge concluded that a business was subject to the CCPA because the complaint allegations satisfied the "for profit" requirement of this California privacy law....more
To note the one year anniversary of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement date, California Attorney General Rob Banta held a press conference on July 19, 2021 to share key information about enforcement...more
Although the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) went into effect on January 1, 2020 and over 100 class actions referencing the CCPA have been filed to date, very few class actions have actually made their way to...more
Earlier this week, the California Department of Justice unexpectedly released a third set of proposed modifications to the CCPA regulations. This move took place only two months after the California Attorney General’s Office...more
10/14/2020
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Information Governance ,
Office of Administrative Law ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Information ,
Privacy Policy ,
State Attorneys General
2020 “back to school” has a whole new meaning in the age of COVID-19. Now, it is finally time for companies to take compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) off the back burner and implement policies and...more
Online stationery and craft company Minted Inc. has been hit with a CCPA class action lawsuit, stemming from a massive data breach the company disclosed in late May. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed in a California...more
6/17/2020
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California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Class Action ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Hackers ,
Putative Class Actions ,
State Attorneys General ,
Unfair Competition Law (UCL)
Companies planning to conduct pandemic-related temperature checks for California employees and visitors to their premises should consider their compliance obligations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“the CCPA”). If...more
The organization known as Californians for Consumer Privacy announced yesterday that it successfully secured enough signatures to qualify adding the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) to the state’s November 2020 ballot....more
Although it may not seem like it, there are privacy-related issues to discuss beyond COVID-19. Before the state of emergency, we saw the first complaint under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) filed in a California...more
While many companies around the world are coping with a global pandemic, some are facing additional challenges in light of a looming deadline triggered by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). Citing #covid19...more
In this post, we offer insights on the revisions recently made by the California Attorney General’s office to Article 4 of its draft regulations pertaining to verification requirements. Article 4 specifies how businesses...more
The companies Salesforce.com, Inc. and Hanna Andersson, LLC are on the receiving end of a novel lawsuit, which appears to be the very first data breach class action ever filed with alleged violations of the California...more
2/6/2020
/ Business & Professions Code ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cause of Action Accrual ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Breach ,
Hackers ,
Injury-in-Fact ,
Negligence ,
Personal Information ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Private Right of Action ,
Spokeo v Robins ,
Statutory Damages ,
Unfair Competition Law (UCL) ,
Web Scraping
The California Attorney General’s draft regulations specify how businesses verify consumers’ identities when they receive consumers’ data requests. Specifically, Section 999.323 requires a business (i) to verify consumers’...more
The California Attorney General’s office (CA AG) has published the long-awaited implementing regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). In addition to the regulations, the CA AG also released a Notice of...more
Last week, California State Senator Jackson and state Attorney General Becerra introduced a new bill, Senate Bill 561. If passed, it will greatly expand the consumers’ right to bring private lawsuits for violations of the...more