Tuesday, December 22, 2020
As the first year for litigation and enforcement, 2020 was a big year for the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). Read on for ConsumerPrivacyWorld’s highlights of the year’s most significant events, as well as our predictions for what 2021 may bring.
Recap – What is the CCPA?
Following the lead of the European Union’s General Data Privacy Regulation (“GDPR”), the CCPA is the nation’s first definitive set of data privacy laws and went into effect on January 1, 2020. It regulates any “business” that “does business in California,” even those without a physical presence in the state, and determines the means and purposes of the processing of “personal information”.