Despite the headlong rush to the Jan. 1, 2020, effective date of the California Consumer Privacy Act, businesses impacted by the requirements imposed by the new law are still looking for more precision in the proposed regulations implementing it. Entities subject to the law also are seeking a slowdown of sorts before they must comply with its requirements, legal practitioners familiar with comments submitted to the California attorney general said.

The comment period on the regulations proposed by the California AG ended Dec. 6, with more than a thousand pages of comments submitted.