Blog: CCPA & CPRA Articles

Does data privacy and protection go federal in 2021? Will more states follow California’s lead? Read our blog to learn more.

Read about proposed modifications to the “final” CCPA regulations, issued August 14, 2020.

If you are preparing for a liquidity event or doing the due diligence associated with acquiring a business, learn how CCPA affect mergers and acquisitions.

Learn more about a third set of modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Regulations.

With CPRA, one of the greatest impacts on your business operations will be through new requirements for privacy risk assessments and audits.

Final regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are now in effect and businesses should finalize their compliance processes and procedures.

Regardless of whether CCPA gets the stamp of approval in July or September, enforcement is right around the corner, and now is the time to make sure your business is prepared.

In the short time since CCPA took effect, your customers have become CCPA-savvy. There’s been media coverage informing consumers of their data privacy rights and explaining how to exercise those rights. Their expectations for positive privacy experiences are rising.

Even if you don’t sell lists of personal data for money, you may still be “selling” under CCPA’s broad definition of “sale.” There’s a lot of confusion about the meaning of “sell” and “personal information” under CCPA and companies are reacting to the ambiguity in many different ways. 

Don’t get so engulfed in CCPA compliance tasks that you neglect to realize opportunities for building consumer relationships in a privacy-centric future. From day one, your company should seize CCPA as a chance to demonstrate responsible data stewardship and build consumer trust.

Here’s what you need to do—at a bare minimum—to get ready for CCPA requirements that go into effect on January 1, 2020.

Learn the differences between GDPR and CCPA, including how to handle DSARs under each of them, in our guide.

California’s new privacy regulations have created a compliance nightmare for unprepared companies.