For more than a year, companies all over the country have been worrying and preparing for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), mostly without a clear sense of what they were worrying about or preparing for. With the California legislature’s finalization of a set of amendments in mid-September, the statute is finally taking shape, and companies can now more effectively focus their energies on preparation, rather than worrying.

The CCPA provides California residents with a variety of new rights when it comes to their personal information. While the governor has not yet signed the amendments, and the California attorney general still needs to issue guidance about how to interpret the law—a guidance which is expected in October—the broad strokes of the statute appear to be set: personal Information is somewhat more narrowly defined than it originally was; employee data and information collected in the course of B2B transactions is largely excluded from the law, although not from the data breach provisions; and the consumer rights remain in place.

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