In 2018, California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which is slated to take effect the first day of 2020. The CCPA, with protections so similar to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) that it is known to many as “GDPR-lite,” regulates data breaches and consumers’ privacy. While it is definitely not as all-encompassing as the GDPR, it does offer, by far, the strictest regulations regarding consumer privacy to date in the United States.

Specifically, the CCPA provides for severe penalties for companies that fail to comply with its standards and procedures upon a data breach of consumers’ sensitive information. As e-commerce continues to dominate sales as it expands and crosses state borders, the CCPA has thus been written to include businesses that may not be physically located within the state’s borders but still ship to California residents. While the United States already has laws that ignore state lines, specifically tax laws, the CCPA is still relatively ground-breaking in how it will affect companies across the United States.

For more information, see our blog post, GDPR-lite? California Adopts Stringent CCPA to Protect Consumers.

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