California Amends New Privacy Law

On June 28, 2018, California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA"). The CCPA was hastily drafted and adopted in order to meet a deadline imposed by the sponsors of a ballot initiative set to be voted on in November. The sponsors of the ballot initiative had agreed to withdraw the initiative if California passed a consumer privacy act prior to June 29^th, and the sponsors did so after the enactment of the CCPA.

Given the hasty nature of the enactment, it was expected that the act would be modified prior to the act's effective date of January 1, 2020 to strengthen the act and remove some errors. On August 31, 2018, the California legislature passed Senate Bill ("SB 1121") as the first amendment of the CCPA.