ANALYSIS: California Voters Strike Back With New Privacy Law

Nov. 23, 2020, 3:09 PM UTC

It’s not uncommon for Hollywood sequels to refine main characters and introduce new ones, but few sequels do it well. Whether the “sequel” to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) — the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) — will be as popular as The Empire Strikes Back is yet to be determined, but the CPRA does follow Hollywood’s formula by tweaking the existing cast and adding new roles. It also heightens the drama by staging a somewhat convoluted premiere schedule.

Approved by California voters Nov. 3, 2020, the CPRA substantially revises the consumer rights and business obligations created by the ...

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