Monday, December 28, 2020
2020 has been a year for the record books, and the area of data breach litigation is no exception. Several key developments, when considered individually or in conjunction, will likely make breach litigation a top of mind data privacy issue going into the next year. So fasten your seatbelts and read on as CPW recaps what you need to know going into 2021.
Overview of Industries Impacted by Data Breach Litigation in 2020
What industries were impacted by data breach litigations in 2020? The short answer: all of them.
Despite the widespread adoption of cybersecurity policies and procedures by organizations to safeguard their proprietary information and the personal information of their clients, consumers, and employees, data breaches are all too common. CPW has covered previously how “[t]echnical cybersecurity safeguards, such as patching, are obviously critical to an effective cybersecurity program. However, many of the most common v
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”.
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In November, Californians approved a ballot measure, Proposition 24, a.k.a. the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), to create a new consumer data privacy agency. It puts California yet another step ahead of other states in terms of privacy productions for consumers and data security requirements for enterprises. California already had a privacy law in place, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), adopted in 2018. It went into effect in January 2020, and enforcement officially began this past July.
The CCPA was supposed to help keep California from passing a more stringent privacy initiative via ballot. CCPA is probably one of the leading privacy laws in the US that protects consumers today, says Christophe Bertrand, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, but it was originally supposed to be more restrictive. It was the product of many political negotiations that weakened the final product.