Impact Of The Last Minute CCPA-Enforcement Delay

A California court recently issued a ruling delaying the CPPA's ability to enforce the most recent CCPA regulations until March 29, 2024. This does not delay enforcement of the CCPA statute or existing regulations.

What happened?

The CPRA -which went into effect January 1, 2023- modified California's existing privacy law: CCPA. The CPRA amendment required the California regulatory authority (the CPPA) to adopt final regulations on a set of issues by July 1, 2022. (Other issues had a longer time frame.) The regulations due on July 1 were not adopted on time: they were only adopted March 29, 2023. Concerned about the lack of time to understand and implement the requirements in the regulations, the California Chamber of Commerce recently sought an injunction banning the enforcement of those regulations. They argued that enforcement should not begin until 12 months after the adoption of the regulations. The court agreed, noting that under the statute as amended, the