The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), enacted in 2018, creates new consumer rights relating to the access to, deletion of, and sharing of personal information that is collected by businesses. It also requires the Attorney General to solicit broad public participation and adopt regulations to further the CCPA’s purposes.
The proposed regulations would establish procedures to facilitate consumers’ new rights under the CCPA and provide guidance to businesses for how to comply. The Attorney General cannot bring an enforcement action under the CCPA until July 1, 2020.
Concerns about data privacy
Concerns about data privacy abound as we head into the final quarter of 2018. Large-scale data breaches at hospitals, banks, retailers, and other organizations — and on social media platforms like Facebook — have most Americans, including lawmakers, thinking about how best to protect their personal information.
This story is from the March 2020 edition of BioSpectrum Asia.
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