Becerra Set to Depart California as State Ups Privacy Policing

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra may leave his post for President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet just as the state’s new privacy regulator and enforcement of its landmark consumer privacy law are taking shape.

Becerra’s office is tasked with loaning staffers to the new privacy agency established under the California Privacy Rights Act approved by voters last month as it gets off the ground. Under the measure, which amended the California Consumer Privacy Act, the state attorney general names one member to the regulator’s five-person board.

The new California Privacy Protection Agency assumes rulemaking authority under state privacy law from the attorney ...