The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is set to take effect less than nine short months from now, but most companies are far from prepared.
Effective Jan. 1, 2020, California will become the first state in the nation to enact a law that, in large part, mirrors the stringent data protection and privacy requirements of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Specifically, the CCPA gives California residents several new rights over their data, including the right to request information about the sources and purposes of the personal information collected, the right of deletion of personal information, and the right to “opt-out” of the sale of their personal information.
