California's Privacy Sequel Qualifies for November Election
California’s privacy law sequel qualified for the Nov. 3 election, with more than 623,212 signatures validated, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla (D) said Wednesday, one day before the deadline to approve ballot initiatives. “We’ve come a long way in…
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the two years since passing the landmark California Consumer Privacy Act, but during these times of unprecedented uncertainty, we need to ensure that the laws keep pace with the ever-changing ways corporations and other entities are using our data,” said Alastair Mactaggart, author of CCPA and the new California Privacy Rights Act. CPRA is “the important next step in ensuring that privacy rights are sustained now and well into the future,” said California Senate Majority Leader Robert Hertzberg (D). Mactaggart sued Padilla over a deadline snafu that could have kept CPRA off the ballot (see 2006120060). In a Friday ruling on that suit, the California Superior Court in Sacramento supported Mactaggart and listed possible remedies. CCPA enforcement starts Wednesday, but it’s unclear if the Office of Administrative Law will approve by then the final rules, submitted earlier this month by Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D), said Wiley privacy attorney Duane Pozza on a Thursday webinar. If not, enforcement would be based solely on the text of the CCPA law, he said. “We’ll have to see what the attorney general does” on the first day of enforcement, he said: Becerra could focus on a few cases, announce broader investigations or send warning letters to businesses that would be “made public and put people on notice about the kinds of things they’re looking at.”