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Today Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's wholly owned legal tech subsidiary took a step forward in becoming a fully fledged tech developer by releasing its first product: a California Consumer Privacy Act compliance tool named SixFifty Privacy.

Wilson Sonsini launched its technology company SixFifty, which is named after the Silicon Valley-based firm's Palo Alto, California, address, earlier this year. At the time of SixFity's launch, the firm said its technology would be geared toward automating legal services for companies and consumers, so it's little surprise the subsidiary set its sights on automating some of the requirements needed under the CCPA.

SixFifty Privacy provides companies of any size with an automated process to map a company's data flow and provides employee training videos regarding consumer rights and requests for access and deletion.

Additionally, the solutions allows companies to automate consumer requests intake. In a demo shown to Legaltech News, SixFifty Privacy quickly generated a portal and link for a company's consumers to request their data be deleted, not sold or to learn what data was shared. The portal also includes consumer verification to confirm a request is from an actual customer, a requirement under the CCPA.

What's more, the compliance tool further also allows a company to auto generate a CCPA compliance policy and consumer rights policy, CCPA related contract addendums and data handling policy documents, and a CCPA privacy notice for websites. All of those documents are created after the company fills out a few questions that include listing the name of the organization and any involved third parties.

 SixFifty president Kimball Parker noted Wilson Sonsini's privacy and data protection team, including former deputy director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection Christopher Olsen, wrote the compliance documents, helped scope the questions needed to fill out the documents and policies and developed the training videos' scripts. 

While packaging and automating that know-how was essential for the project, the affordability of the service was also key, Parker said.

With the CCPA's Jan. 1, 2020, enactment approaching, some 500,000 U.S. companies will fall under the regulation's scope. While many companies and their counsel are preparing for the new requirements, not all have the budget to spend on compliance. 

“Basically we are trying to make Wilson Sonsini available to an entirely different subset of companies,”  Parker said. 

To be sure, while Wilson Sonsini partners provide the expertise found in SixFifty Privacy, subscribers won't be charged the comparative billable hours.

“What we've done is look at the price to use another big law firm to do those things and tried to price our project at one-fifth or one-tenth that cost,” Parker noted.

He explained users can buy the modules of the tool “a la carte.” The documents feature starts at $7,500 plus a $2,000 annual fee. For consumer request links, SixFifty Privacy charges $5,000 a year for the service, however if a company is processing a thousand-plus requests a year they'll be charged a higher amount. It also costs $50-$100 per trainee to watch the tool's video while the data mapping feature costs $7,500 or more with a 2,000 annual renewal fee.

Parker also noted that SixFifty Privacy will be routinely updated by Wilson Sonsini attorneys to adhere to the most up-to-date case law, amendments and other developments that impact the CCPA.

As SixFifty releases its CCPA compliance product, a survey found nearly half of U.S. technology, manufacturing, financial services, utilities and health care companies haven't started CCPA compliance. Meanwhile, a plethora of other CCPA compliance regulation tools are cropping up, including law firm Parsons Behle & Latimer subsidiary's CCPA IQ and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's CCPA Readiness Assessment Tool.