Wednesday, January 27, 2021
The California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) went into effect on January 1, 2020. CPW has covered some of the privacy litigations involving the CCPA (and the first CCPA class action settlement). For those of you wondering whether the CCPA limited the scope of discovery in litigation, at least one federal court last year held it
does not.
Will Kaupelis v. Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc., Case No. 19-01203 (C.D. Cal.)
As a reminder, the CCPA 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” (“PI”). Aligning with the European Union’s General Data Privacy Regulation (“GDPR”), the CCPA defines “personal information” to include “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked,