CCPA Regs: "This Is The Meat On The Bones…."

"Data is today's gold. Everyone is rushing to mine data. Here in California, we are not unfamiliar with gold rushes... [in fact,][w]e are better than Captain Kirk and the Enterprise. We are going [with the CCPA regulations] to where no one has gone before! [A]nd it's going to be a great series, maybe they will even make a movie about it." With this lofty introduction, livestreamed on YouTube (see it at here) from a press conference in San Francisco at 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 10, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released advance copies of the much awaited proposed implementation regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CCPA) and announced public hearings on the regs across the Golden State, to take place Dec. 2 through 5. The deadline for written comments is Dec. 6. There will be a second public comment period following revisions to the draft regulations of either 15 or 45 days depending on the extent of changes in response to the first public