Results for: consumer privacy act
Private and Public CCPA Enforcement Will Launch on January 1, 2020 Despite California AG Delay
As we approach the January 1, 2020 effective date of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), many companies are feeling in the dark about how and when the CCPA will be enforced. Will the California Attorney General call on January 2nd? Will plaintiffs’ lawyers serve complaints on January 3rd? Will […]
Tardy for the CCPA Party? Tips for Your Last Month Before the Deadline
With a month left before the January 1, 2020 deadline to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act, covered businesses should ideally be well on their way to compliance. But what if you procrastinated and find yourself tardy for the CCPA compliance party? Here are a few practical, last-minute tips […]
The DAA Announces the Development of New CCPA Tools for Ad Industry
On November 25, 2019, the Digital Advertising Alliance announced it is developing cross-industry tools for publishers, brands, agencies and adtech to provide a mechanism to opt out under the California Consumer Privacy Act, which takes effect on January 1, 2020. These tools align with the DAA’s self-regulatory guidelines and are […]
IAB Issues Draft CCPA Framework
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released for public comment the IAB California Consumer Privacy Act Compliance (CCPA) Framework for Publishers and Technology Companies. According to the IAB, the draft framework is intended to help publishers, ad agencies and other companies involved in the digital advertising ecosystem comply with the CCPA, […]
California AG Releases Draft CCPA Regulations and Governor Signs CCPA Amendments Into Law
Just under three months before the January 1, 2020 deadline to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the California Attorney General (“AG”) released a notice of proposed rulemaking and draft regulations pursuant to the CCPA on October 10, 2019. The next day, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into […]
Effort to Exempt “HR Data” from CCPA Falters
Labor groups concerned about employee privacy have succeeded in slowing the effort to pass legislation exempting employer-held information from the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). Thanks to their intervention, the proposed legislation – AB 25 – has been revised to provide that the CCPA will apply to personal information of […]
At GDPR’s One Year Mark, Continued Compliance Efforts are Key and Can Help with CCPA Compliance
With the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) now over a year old, companies may feel that their data privacy challenges have settled down and that their GDPR work is complete. While that may be true for some companies, the reality for most is that their GDPR compliance efforts […]
Cooley Launches CCPA Resource Page
To help organizations understand and prepare for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Cooley’s cyber/data/privacy team has launched a CCPA resource page, including FAQs, a compliance checklist, recordings of our CCPA webcasts, links to our CCPA blog coverage and more. We welcome your ideas for CCPA topics that you think […]
Notes from first CCPA Public Forum in San Francisco
On Tuesday in San Francisco, the California Department of Justice (“DOJ”) held its first of six public forums on the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) before a packed room of industry representatives and public citizens. The forums are intended to fulfill the Attorney General’s mandate under CCPA to […]
California Attorney General Announces CCPA Workshops
The California State Attorney General’s office announced that it will be holding six rulemaking workshops for the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). The workshop dates and locations are: January 8 – San Francisco January 14 – San Marcos January 24 – Riverside January 25 – Los Angeles February […]