California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, 2020, and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which amends and expands the CCPA to enhance privacy protections for California residents, went into effect on January 1, 2023, with enforcement by the California Privacy Protection Agency beginning on July 1, 2023.
The CCPA empowers California residents (consumers), by enabling them with more power & control over how their data is collected, used, shared and sold
Obligations & Consequences
The following are few key obligations & consequences, flowing from the CPRA, on any organization to whom these provisions apply:
- The CPRA spells out new requirements for “Data Retention”.
- The regulation incorporates new Consumer Privacy Rights.
- Adoption of the “Data Minimization”, which implies that, organizations must collect & retain what is reasonably necessary and proportionate to the intended purpose.
- The CPRA shifts the authority to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA).
- The CPRA has introduced a new category of highly protected data known as sensitive personal information (SPI).
Challenges
Following challenges, emanating from the CCPA/CPRA requirements, are currently being encountered by various organizations:
- To facilitate it’s smooth transition from CCPA, to CPRA, organizations ought to have their entire “Data footprint”.
- Organizations share the user data with various third parties, during the course of its business.
- Manually managing data mapping and inventory, to adhere to CCPA requirements, such as verifying and fulfilling consumer requests (DSR’s) within the stipulated period, or else shall run the exposure of regulatory sanctions.
- Implementation of Data Minimization under CPRA.
- Lack of provision or process to delete the data, despite the fact that the CPRA mandates data deletion when the lawful basis for processing expires.
- Organizations lack the mechanism of validating the permanent deletion of the data.
Solutions
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