The Attorney General of California has released draft
regulations to implement the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
just a few months before the law’s January 1, 2020 effective
date.
The CCPA
Briefly, the CCPA was signed into law on June 28, 2018. It is
the nation’s first comprehensive privacy law that applies to
all industries and grants California residents new rights relating
to the access to, deletion of and sharing of their “personal
information” (broadly defined to include any information that
“identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of
being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or
indirectly, with a particular consumer or household”) when
collected by a for-profit business that either:
