Rebekah S. Guyon, a shareholder in GT’s Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice, is quoted in a Corporate Counsel article titled “Big-Dollar Biometric Settlements Emboldening Plaintiffs Attorneys to Bring More Cases.”
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The CCPA includes a non-exhaustive list of data types that may fall under the definition of personal information. One of those data types is “biometric information.”1
While the CCPA provides a definition of “biometric information,” it is worth noting that the CCPA’s definition differs from the definition of the term in other statutes and
Yes.
The CPRA adds “sensitive personal information”[1] to the examples of data types that may constitute personal information. The term “sensitive personal information” is itself defined within the CPRA to include 20 data fields. Some, but not all, of these data fields already existed in the CCPA, and their inclusion with the personal information