CCPA Regulations

The CCPA Regulations require that businesses that buy, receive, sell, or share personal information about more than 10 million Californians disclose metrics within their privacy notices regarding the quantity of data subject requests that they received in the previous calendar year. Among other things, businesses must report the number of deletion requests received.1

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The CCPA Regulations require that businesses that buy, receive, sell, or share personal information about more than 10 million Californians disclose metrics within their privacy notices regarding the speed with which they respond to the data subject requests that they received in the previous calendar year. Among other things, businesses must report the average or

The CCPA Regulations require that businesses that buy, receive, sell, or share personal information about more than 10 million Californians disclose metrics within their privacy notices regarding the quantity of data subject requests that they received in the previous calendar year. Among other things, businesses must publicly report the number of access requests that the

New regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took effect in March that prohibit businesses from using on their websites “dark patterns” that make it difficult for California consumers to opt out of the sale of their personal information.

A dark pattern is a potentially manipulative user interface design that can have the effect,

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The regulations implementing the CCPA only require that a business utilize reasonable security in the context of personal information collected or processed for specific purposes – i.e., consumer requests and information provided in response to access requests. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has stated that what constitutes “reasonable security measures” in these

The CPRA, which modified the CCPA, uses the term “right to know” and “right to access” synonymously.1 The regulations implementing the CCPA use the phrase “request to know” exclusively. Most data privacy attorneys use the term “access rights” and requests for such information as “access requests,” as those terms have historically been used within

The CCPA and its implementing regulations identify six types of information requests that a consumer can submit to a business. As the first five requests ask that a business respond with broad information about the type of information collected (as opposed to the actual information itself), they are often referred to as category-level access requests.

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A privacy policy typically discloses the following information to the public:

  • The categories of information collected from a data subject directly and from third parties about a data subject,
  • The purpose for which information is collected and used,
  • The ability (if applicable) of a data subject to opt out of their information being sold,

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The CPRA created a new sub-category of personal information that it labels “sensitive personal information.” [1] The sub-category is comprised of twenty specific data fields which include, among other things, the religious beliefs, racial origin, precise geolocation, and sexual orientation of a consumer. Beginning on January 1, 2023, consumers will have the right to

The CCPA did not explicitly label any data type as being more, or less, “sensitive” than another, although it did confer special data security-related rights on a subset of data types.

The CPRA created a new sub-category of personal information that it labels “sensitive personal information.” [1] The sub-category is comprised of twenty specific data