Litigation & Trial Practice Newsletter - Spring 2020

CCPA Update: The Calm Before the Storm?Businesses begin wading into CCPA compliance without final regulatory guidance and under the threat of uncertain enforcement repercussions. The California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, is here. Sort of. This first-of-its-kind,broad-sweeping online privacy legislation in the United States was hastily adopted in 2018 to out-flank a looming ballot initiative. The CCPA took effect January 1, 2020; however, final regulations are not required by the statute until July 1, 2020. In the meantime, businesses subject to the law are grappling with whether and how to comply with the CCPA in the first half of 2020 as they await the final rulemaking –and the Attorney General’s looming enforcement authority.