The Weekly Privacy Rewind - December 2018

California Consumer Protection Act

Privacy Groups Urge California Lawmakers Not to Weaken California Consumer Privacy Act

• A variety of privacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Digital Privacy Alliance and the Center for Digital Democracy, sent a letter to California lawmakers asking them not to "push[] California backward" when it comes to privacy rights and to continue amending the California Consumer Privacy Act (the CCPA) for the better.
• Touting California's lead on consumer protection, the privacy groups suggested a variety of improvements to the CCPA, including defining and reining in data misuse and abuse, ensuring appropriate security protections for personal information, and providing meaningful redress to individuals, including by expanding the CCPA's private right of action.