California's Privacy Legislation Will Force Changes in the Way Businesses Collect Personal Information in 2020

January 8, 2019

We've written about the California Consumer Privacy Act before in "European and Chinese Pressures are Squeezing Silicon Valley, Threatening a Global ‘Splinternet’. The fact of multiple states passing significant privacy legislation is one of the potential drivers for federal consideration of substantial privacy rules. Here, attorney Lauren Stickroth catalogs the various aspects of the bill, including: 1. Consumers having the right to know what information is collected about them, 2. Consumers having the ability to request compies of personal business records, 3. The deletion of personal information collected about the consumers, 4. An "opt-out" right, 5. Non-discrimination, and 6. The right to litigation.

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