On June 14, 2021, the Board of the newly-formed California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) held its first public meeting. The Board had an extensive agenda, covering topics such as the laws affecting the Board and CPPA,...more
Data privacy is a top concern for many in-house legal professionals – and for good reason – data privacy and cybersecurity legal requirements are complex and continually evolving. Data Privacy Day is a great day to start...more
The November 2020 election left a lot of questions. Among them, companies doing business in California are now asking about compliance with yet another California data privacy law, this time the California Privacy Rights and...more
On November 9, 2020 the FTC entered into a consent agreement with Zoom Video Communications, Inc. to address concerns over the videoconferencing platform’s security practices. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need...more
12/2/2020
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On October 12, 2020, the California Attorney General provided public notice of a new Proposed Third Set of Modifications to the Regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”). You will be forgiven if you...more
10/14/2020
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On August 14, 2020, the California Attorney General announced final approval of the California Consumer Privacy Act Regulations by the Office of Administrative Law. The Regulations take effect immediately....more
If you’re like us, you’ve been anticipating an announcement from the California Attorney General about the types of companies it targeted in its initial enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), the...more
Here we go again. On March 11, 2020, the California Attorney General (AG) published a second set of modifications to its Regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act. Unlike the AG’s modifications from just last...more
3/13/2020
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On February 7, 2020, the California Attorney General (AG) published a set of Modified Regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The Modified Regulations take into account some of the comments received...more
2/12/2020
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This week, the California Attorney General held public hearings on the draft California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations it issued in October. We attended the hearings in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. One clear...more
12/6/2019
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Late last week heralded two significant and highly anticipated updates to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
On October 10, 2019, the Office of the California Attorney General issued a long-anticipated Notice of...more
10/17/2019
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