The California Consumer Privacy Act is here. Businesses around the nation must now take action to protect new legal privacy rights granted to California residents. As with any new compliance regime, dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s for CCPA requires a careful review of business practices. Now that the dust is settling on initial compliance efforts, many organizations find themselves at the perfect point to assess the effectiveness of their CCPA controls.

While it technically applies only to California residents, CCPA is likely to spark a wave of similar legislation in other states. California was the first state to introduce a data breach notification law in 2002. Today, nearly two decades later, there are similar laws on the books in every state. With this trend in mind, businesses should expect to scale these responses to their operations nationwide.

Published March 2020 in SearchSecurity
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