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Is it hyperbolic to say that never before have we seen a quieter, yet more anticipated and welcome end to a year than in 2020? For some, 2020 is a year the sooner forgotten, the better. In data privacy and security law, a lot happened. Here are five musical references to remind what a tremendous year 2020 was.
California Dreamin’. In January 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) become effective. Yes – that’s hard to believe, given that it feels like we’ve been talking about CCPA forever. Certainly CCPA lived up to the hype. The three sets of draft regulations released by the California Office of the Attorney General helped, as did the class action litigation. And now, we have the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) to close out 2020.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
For the second time in two years, California is preparing to revolutionize its consumer privacy law framework. California voters overwhelmingly voted in favor of Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), in the 3 November 2020, general election, approving the measure by a double-digit percentage margin over two million votes. The CPRA’s inclusion on the ballot came due to efforts from Californians for Consumer Privacy, the same organization whose consumer privacy ballot initiative in 2018 prompted the California legislature to enact the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Californians for Consumer Privacy asserted that an “assault by giant corporations” on the CCPA during the legislative process weakened the law’s final, codified version, however, and therefore prompted the organization’s efforts to put the issue of adopting a new consumer privacy regime in California before California voters once more.
Keypoint: The Washington Privacy Act is back.
The Washington state legislature will once again consider
consumer data privacy legislation when it convenes on January 11,
2021. On January 5, 2021, Senators Reuven Carlyle and Joe Nguyen
pre-filed the 2021 version of the Washington Privacy Act (WPA) (
Senate Bill 5062). The WPA is scheduled for a public hearing in
the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology on
January 14, 2021, which committee is
chaired by Senator Carlyle.
In the past two years, versions of the WPA passed the Washington
Senate without issue. However, in 2019, the bill
failed in the Assembly. In 2020, the Assembly
passed an amended version of the bill but the two chambers were
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J. Trevor Hughes, president and CEO, International Association of Privacy Professionals
From contact tracing to data transfer to the new California Privacy Rights Act, 2021 already is shaping up to be a big year for privacy. Trevor Hughes, CEO and president of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, offers a “state of privacy” overview.
The privacy impact of the COVID-19 pandemic;
California’s new privacy law;
The emergence and impact of global privacy legislation.
Hughes is an attorney specializing in e-commerce, privacy and technology law. He s president and CEO of the IAPP, the world s largest association of privacy professionals. Hughes has testified before the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the EU Parliament on issues of privacy and data protection, spam prevention and related technolo