California Draft Privacy Rules Tweaked Ahead of Agency Meeting

California businesses could have more clarity on how state privacy rules apply to third parties and how online interfaces could interfere with consumer consent under proposed changes released Monday.

The California Privacy Protection Agency Board will meet Oct. 21-22 to consider updates to its draft privacy regulations. The CPPA is in the process of drafting regulations to expand California’s first-in-the-nation landmark consumer privacy law. The voter-approved California Privacy Rights Act builds on existing state privacy law to give consumers more power over how their data is collected and used.

Proposed changes to the draft rules follow a comment period in ...