And The Modified Proposed CCPA Regulations Are Here!

On February 10, the California Attorney General's office released a highly anticipated updated draft of the proposed CCPA regulations. This draft corrected a version first issued on February 7, 2020. These latest updates follow the four public hearings held in December 2019 and nearly 1,700 pages of comments submitted after the AG first released the initial proposal in October 2019. While these modified regulations are still not final, some of the notable changes include:

• Clarifying that businesses do not collect "personal information" when it collects IP addresses but does not link the IP address to any particular consumer or household, and could not reasonably link the IP address (999.302);