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September 16, 2021 | Mike Tierney

What is the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) 2020 and how does it compare to the CCPA?

What is the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)? The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) is an extension of the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The goal of both laws is to enhance the privacy rights of California residents with regards to the personal information that companies...
April 7, 2021 | Craig Riddell

CCPA Compliance: How to Become Compliant

The collection and processing Personal information (PI) enables businesses to customize the customer experience and boost sales. However, certain consumer rights advocacies and privacy regulations strictly limit the collection of PI to ensure that organizations utilize their data in a meaningful...
July 15, 2020 | Ryan Brooks

How to Protect PII

A wide range of privacy regulations govern how organizations collect, store and use personally identifiable information (PII). In general, companies need to ensure data confidentiality, avoid data breaches and leaks, and make sure data is not destroyed or altered in unauthorized ways. The...
February 27, 2020 | Ilia Sotnikov

Privacy Regulations Changing the Face of Cybersecurity

The regulatory climate around the world is changing rapidly. Scores of new regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and similar laws in other U.S. states, are being enacted in response to growing concerns about privacy and...
October 24, 2019 | Ilia Sotnikov

Why New Privacy Regulations Are a Business Enabler, Not an Enemy

Personal information (PI) is the future of business because it helps provide customers with a customized experience that leads them to buy more. However, companies can no longer collect personal data without restraint, given the growing wave of consumer rights advocacy and privacy regulations such...
August 27, 2019 | Mike Tierney

Data Privacy Laws by State: Different Approaches to Privacy Protection

As data privacy protection has become a priority for individuals, governments at all levels have enacted a variety of privacy rights laws to control how organizations collect, store and process personal information, such as names, addresses, healthcare data, financial records, and credit...
May 21, 2019 | Ilia Sotnikov

CCPA Compliance: What to Clarify with Your Legal Advisor

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires that, as of January 1, 2020, all organizations that gather, handle or process the personal data of California residents must be able to provide any data subject with all the personal data they have collected about them during the preceding 12...
December 12, 2018 | Ilia Sotnikov

CCPA vs GDPR: What GDPR-Ready Companies Need to Know about the CCPA

As a response to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal and the overall upsurge in personal data breaches, California passed a new data protection and data privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Although the CCPA does not become...
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