
In the new year, comprehensive privacy laws go into operation in five states: California (January 1), Virginia (January 1), Colorado (July 1), Connecticut (July 1), and Utah (December 31). Subsequent blog posts will cover each of these laws in detail. In this post, we begin a series analyzing the impact of the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) in greater depth.
The CPRA will go into operation on January 1, 2023 and will be enforceable by the newly created California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) beginning on July 1, 2023. Passed by ballot initiative in November 2020, the CPRA amends and expands the California Consumer Privacy Act (together with the CPRA, the “CCPA/CPRA”), already the most far-reaching privacy legislation currently in operation in the United States. As amended, the CCPA/CPRA expands consumer privacy rights and data processing obligations, creating new rights to limit the use of sensitive personal information and to correct personal information stored by a business. It implements certain “principles of processing” like the purpose limitation, requiring businesses to evaluate their uses of personal information to ensure they are proportionate to the requirements of disclosed business and commercial purposes. It also enhances opt-out rights in the context of cross-context behavioral advertising and requires that businesses enter into new contractual terms with service providers to which they disclose the personal information of California residents.