It’s a great time to be a privacy attorney. On October 17, 2022, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) released the next draft of the regulations under the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) as well as a document explaining the proposed modifications. Two days of public hearings were recently held on October 21-22
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Coast to Coast and Back Again – Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Rules
By Romaine Marshall, Jose Abarca & Jon Washburn on
March 2020 will long be remembered as the month and year of en masse shutdowns. But the pandemic has done little if anything to slow new cybersecurity and data privacy laws. As highlighted below, regulations for one have been submitted (CA), another has gone into effect (NY), and yet another has been proposed (CA).
California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) Gets Confirmed by State Attorney General
After nine months, a lot of public input, and three proposed drafts, the regulations for enforcement of the CCPA have been submitted for approval. The final text of the regulations demonstrates how granular enforcement could be. Here are five examples:
- A business’s required privacy policy must include the date it was last updated.
- A business must provide at least two methods for consumers to send requests for deletion of their information.
- A service provider can retain, use, or disclose information in certain circumstances, such as to detect security incidents even after a deletion request.
- A business must confirm within 10 days that it has received a request to know what it has collected from consumers.
- A business must have a documented policy for verifying the identity of a person making a request related to their personal information.
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