The California Consumer Privacy Act, set to become effective in
January 2020, will introduce a powerful new set of rights for
California consumers — broad and inalienable rights to
control the sharing, disposition, retention and use of their data.
The central premise of the new law is that all consumers have an
inalienable right, rooted in Article I, Section 1 of the California
Constitution, to reclaim and/or demand deletion of personal
information from businesses covered by the new law.
That these rights are "inalienable" means that they
can't be forfeited by waiver, or even by sale. Central to this
new set of rights is the right of access — the right of a
consumer to demand that a business disclose select information
about data collected from the consumer, including the
"specific pieces" of personal information collected from
that consumer, in the year preceding the request. This right, in
the overall context of the new statute as written, raises serious
questions
