California Privacy Law Updates Go Live Jan. 1 Absent Final Rules

California’s beefed-up privacy law arrives in less than a month, yet few observers expect all the necessary rulemaking to be done by January. That’s putting businesses in unclear territory on how to navigate compliance.

“There’s still a lot that our clients are waiting for,” said Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter, a privacy attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. “But as they’re moving into the new year, I think companies are really just attempting to comply with what they understand at this point.”

There’s no clear timeline on when all the rules will be finalized. An initial portion of the new regulations ...