California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Employee Privacy Rights, Notice Requirements

A New Era for Workplace Surveillance?

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 7/30/2025

California is adapting to the prevalence of technology in the modern workplace – especially artificial intelligence – as these digital tools become more embedded in business infrastructure. ...more

Employee Data Increasingly in the Crosshairs of Data Privacy Enforcement

Latham & Watkins LLP on 7/20/2023

The California Attorney General’s investigative sweep is a potential harbinger of increased focus on employers’ data privacy compliance with respect to employee data. On July 14, 2023, the California Attorney General...more

California Employers Beware: Your 5-Step Plan as Attorney General Announces CCPA Investigative Sweep

Fisher Phillips on 7/20/2023

California employers, beware: the state’s top prosecutor just announced his office is conducting an investigative sweep of whether and how large California employers have complied with data privacy and consumer protection...more

[Webinar] Top Tips for California Employers to Prepare for the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) Effective January 1, 2023 -...

CDF Labor Law LLP on 10/11/2022

Following the passage of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), for the past two years, employers have been partially exempt from many of the California Consumer Privacy Act's (CCPA) mandates pertaining to applicants,...more

Employee Data Under the CCPA: Expiration of Employer Exemptions Requires Compliance as of January 1, 2023

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 10/5/2022

Since the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) was passed in 2018, employers have been watching carefully to see how the law will apply to data collected and maintained about their employees. Up until now, employment data...more

New Rules and Risks in Employee Monitoring

WilmerHale on 6/29/2022

Employee communications and use of company devices are often key issues in trade secret and related litigation. United States law, for the most part, has been very supportive of an employer’s ability to engage in aggressive...more

Will Employers Have More Obligations Beyond the CCPA if these California Privacy Bills Pass?

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 6/1/2022

California employers have navigated the ever-changing privacy landscape when it comes to employee and personnel personal information (“human resources data”). For years, California employers’ obligations were narrow in scope...more

Businesses Need To Revamp And Revise CCPA Notices As 2020 Comes To A Close

Fisher Phillips on 11/20/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all manner of business procedures over the course of this past year, but one area you may not immediately recognize that needs to be immediately addressed relates to mandatory privacy...more

California Assembly Passes CCPA Amendment: Employee Personal Information Exemption Extension

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/10/2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) has only been in effect since January, but amendments are already on the horizon. Personal information in the employment context was highly contested during the CCPA’s amendment...more

Return to Work: What Employers Should Know About AB 1281, CCPA Notice Requirements and Recent Labor Law Guidance

BakerHostetler on 9/9/2020

While most privacy news and alerts have been focused on the collection and processing of customer data (see our earlier posts about interest-based advertising and the House Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust Hearing with Big...more

Does an employee privacy notice need to be separate and distinct from a consumer privacy notice?

BCLP on 7/31/2020

No. The CCPA requires that a business subject to the Act disclose the type of personal information that it collects about its California employees and the purpose of the collection “at or before the point of collection.”...more

5 Data Privacy Insights in the Time of COVID-19

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 7/9/2020

As businesses around the globe prepared to meet the demands of new data privacy laws and regulations in 2020, the world was thrown a curveball in the form of COVID-19....more

Recent Changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) May Require Employers to Revisit Their Privacy Notice as It Relates...

FordHarrison on 2/18/2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect earlier this year, has left many employers in the Golden State scrambling to comply with privacy regulations concerning the collection and use of personal data...more

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