Appeals Court Says California Privacy Agency Can Enforce Rules

The California Privacy Protection Agency can start enforcing its privacy regulations after a state appellate court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling that had prevented such action until March.

The decision by California’s Third District Court of Appeal means the regulations that the first-in-the-nation privacy agency had enacted, which were supposed to be enforced starting last July, are now active.

The California Chamber of Commerce sued the agency in 2023, a day after the agency’s first set of regulations went into effect. Those regulations dealt with the basics of the California Privacy Rights Act, which voters approved in 2020 ...