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The California Attorney General’s Office recently released a fourth set of proposed regulatory modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”).

As background, the Attorney General’s Office had only just recently given notice of a third set of modifications on October 12, 2020.  The third set of modifications revised the regulations relating to the notice of a consumer’s right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information. … Continue Reading

California is once again poised to set the standard for privacy and data security by enacting the first state law directed at securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The law has passed the state legislature and is awaiting the signature of Governor Jerry Brown. It requires manufacturers of “connected devices” to equip them with “a reasonable security feature or features” that are:

  • appropriate to the nature and function of the device;
  • appropriate to the information the device may collect, contain or transmit; and
  • designed to protect the device and any information contained in it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.
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