CCPA – “California’s GDPR” Finalized Just Before July 1, 2020 Enforcement Date

Almost a full two years after the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA” or the “Act”) was signed into law, California begins its enforcement of the CCPA on July 1, 2020. The CCPA, which came into effect in the beginning of 2020, is one of a few robust state data privacy laws passed in the wake of Europe’s implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Section III of this U.S. Tech Law Update provides a comparative view of the GDPR and California’s finalized CCPA.