5 Things to Know About the California Consumer Privacy Act By KATHERINE CATLOS and JACK HAKIM October 25, 2019 Reprinted with permission from Corporate Compliance Insights (March 11, 2019 Issue) The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect January 1, 2020, is the most comprehensive privacy law passed in the United States. It’s not just that there are new consumer rights associated with personal information (PI) and more severe penalties, but the definition of PI is very broad. The CCPA defines PI as any “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with or could reasonably Read More
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California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Mitigation Services
An ounce of prevention can meaningfully reduce risk for companies under CCPA. The cost of non-compliance of CCPA can be very large. CCPA introduces significant legal and technical challenges; it requires new policies, procedures, disclosures, 3rd party agreements, data mapping, security, new operational capabilities to satisfy customers requests based on their new rights and other preparation for compliance. In California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Why You Need To Start Now! We described the new rights, fines, statutory damages, other requirements. We mentioned that CCPA authorizes a limited private right of action (and class action through proxies) for consumers whose personal information Read More
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Compliance Services
CCPA imposes plenty of legal and technical challenges – requiring the adoption of new policies, procedures, disclosures, third party agreements, data mapping, security practices, and operational capabilities that satisfy consumer requests based on their new rights. Businesses can meaningfully reduce their risks under CCPA by taking a principled approach to compliance that is tailored to their organizations’ needs. Depending on what stage of compliance a business is in, our team can do it all or augment what’s already in place (existing teams, tools and practices, etc.) to assist businesses become and remain compliant. Given the changes that CCPA requires, and the Read More
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Why You Need to Start Now!
CCPA creates new consumer rights and businesses will need to create new processes and procedures to support these rights at scale. Will your organization be ready on January 1, 2020, to answer 100 consumer requests in 45 days? Will you be able to complete 10s of thousands of requests, covering everything collected in the previous 12 months (in this example 1/1/2019): To show all the Personal Information (PI) of theirs you have The categories of that shared PI The usage by categories for the previous 12 months The uses of that data by category And to delete the PI? And to Read More
