The California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act of 2020 (the “CPRA”) expands the privacy rights and protections provided to California consumers pursuant to existing state law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”). Businesses that are subject to the CPRA must comply with various notice obligations and requirements related to the collection, deletion, sale and sharing of personal information.

This client alert provides a summary of some of the CPRA’s changes to the CCPA, the creation of the California Privacy Protection Agency and the ...

Below is a summary of recent developments for the Food, Beverage and Hospitality industry in terms of Internet laws and regulations. To learn more about these issues and how they affect the industry, join us on October 28, 2020 for our Industry Debrief on the CCPA, CPRA, Data Security and Other Risks.

Consumer Privacy and the CCPA

In June 2018, California enacted one of the most comprehensive privacy laws in the country, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”). The CCPA went into effect on January 1, 2020, and started to be enforced by the California Attorney General ...

California's Secretary of State announced that the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) has qualified for the state's November ballot. Real estate mogul, Alastair Mactaggart, has done it again.  After successfully getting the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) passed by Sacramento in record time for fear that the CCPA would be on the November 2018 ballot, Mactaggart has once again obtained the required 623,212 signatures to do the same with the CPRA in 2020. If passed, the CPRA would build on the underlying principles of the CCPA by permitting consumers to ...

The fourth and final part of this CCPA client alert series focuses on certain training and record-keeping requirements pursuant to the CCPA.

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) and the related proposed Attorney General Regulations (the “Regulations”) provide California consumers with increased privacy rights and protections with respect to their personal information. Businesses that are subject to the CCPA must comply with various notice obligations and requirements related to the collection, deletion and sale of personal information. The ...

Part three of this CCPA client alert series focuses on the obligations for service providers pursuant to the CCPA.

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) and the related proposed Attorney General Regulations (the “Regulations”) provide California consumers with increased privacy rights and protections with respect to their personal information. Businesses that are subject to the CCPA must comply with various notice obligations and requirements related to the collection, deletion and sale of personal information. The California Attorney General ...

Part two of this CCPA client alert series focuses on how to verify and respond to consumer requests.

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) and the related proposed Attorney General Regulations (the “Regulations”) provide California consumers with increased privacy rights and protections with respect to their personal information. Businesses that are subject to the CCPA must comply with various notice obligations and requirements related to the collection, deletion and sale of personal information. The California Attorney General intends to begin ...

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) and the related proposed Attorney General Regulations (the “Regulations”) provide California consumers with increased privacy rights and protections with respect to their personal information. Businesses that are subject to the CCPA must comply with various notice obligations and requirements related to the collection, deletion and sale of personal information. The California Attorney General intends to begin enforcing the CCPA and the Regulations on July 1, 2020.

This client alert provides a summary of the ...

As required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”), the California Attorney General’s Office (the “AG”) is hard at work crafting regulations related to the CCPA to be implemented by July 1, 2020.  The CCPA will go into effect on January 1, 2020, but the AG’s enforcement will not be initiated until later that year.  In the meantime, consumers and businesses alike are anxiously awaiting the AG’s first draft of the regulations.  The AG’s regulations are intended to clarify certain ambiguities in the CCPA and outline and implement rules for businesses to ...

As you know by now, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) is California’s groundbreaking legislation that grants California residents unprecedented rights and protections regarding the collection and use of their personal information. While the breadth and scope of the CCPA is readily transparent, California’s Attorney General (“AG”) is still in the process of adopting regulations to help implement the act. The AG is currently accepting comments in a series of public forums that began in January, and the California Department of Justice recently ...

California now has the most sweeping and comprehensive privacy rights law in the country — The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “Act”).  Some might say the Act is the result of Cambridge Analytica misusing the data of tens of millions of Facebook users.  Others would suggest that the Act is merely the natural and logical progression of inalienable rights of privacy in the digital age.  Whatever the reason, California’s Privacy Bill of Rights for consumers will forever change the way businesses collect and use personal information (“PI”).

Here’s the good news ...