California Privacy Enforcement Gives Companies Rules ‘Headache’

Companies are scrambling to prepare for California to start enforcing its sweeping privacy law next month, even though the state attorney general’s compliance rules haven’t been formalized.

Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) June 2 released his final set of rules to guide businesses in how they should notify state residents of their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act. Becerra plans to start enforcing the law July 1. But the state’s Office of Administrative Law may not approve the rules in time for enforcement.

Becerra has asked the office to speed its review, but the administrative agency said it has ...