No.
The European GDPR permits a company to retain personal data for “no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed.”[1] As a result, if a company no longer needs information to accomplish a specific purpose, the company is, theoretically, required to delete that information. The requirement that
The term “personally identified information” is utilized by some industry groups, including the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). Personally identified information, or “PII,” is defined by such organizations to refer to a significantly narrower set of data than the term “personal information” used within the CCPA. The following provides a side-by-side comparison of the two terms:
The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CPRA” or “Proposition 24”) labels 20 data fields as constituting “sensitive personal information.” [1] If Proposition 24 is enacted businesses would be permitted to use sensitive personal information for one of the following purposes:[2]
Yes and no.
The CCPA references directly, or by incorporating definitions from other code provisions, 55 data types that may fall under the broad definition of “personal information.” While the CCPA does not label any data type as being more, or less, sensitive than another, the Act does confer special rights on a subset of