Editors' Note: This is the second
in our fifth-annual end-of-year series examining important trends
in data privacy and cybersecurity in the coming year. Read
our previous post on Energy.
Though the final results of the 2020 presidential race took a
few days to become clear, it was obvious by the morning of November
4 that cannabis legalization had run the table: from deep red
Montana, South Dakota, and Mississippi, to purple Arizona, and blue
New Jersey, voters overwhelmingly favored state ballot initiatives
to legalize adult use and medical cannabis. The same Election
Day, California voters approved an aggressive expansion of the
California Consumer Protection Act (the "CCPA") (already
among the strictest state privacy laws) into the California Privacy Rights Act, which envisages
extensive privacy protections one typically associates with the
EU's General Data Protection Regulation.
