On March 15, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
announced that the California Office of Administrative Law approved his fourth set of proposed modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (CCPA) implementing regulations (
In announcing the approval of the Fourth Set of Modifications, Attorney General Becerra noted that these revisions intend to “ensure that consumers will not be confused or misled when seeking to exercise their data privacy rights.” And, indeed, the regulations focus on providing consumers with clarity as to how they can opt out of the sale of their personal information.
Dark Patterns. The newly approved Fourth Set of Modifications ban so-called “dark patterns” that delay or obscure the process for opting out of the sale of personal information. Without defining precisely what constitutes a prohibited practice, businesses may not burden consumers seeking to opt out with confusing language or unnecessary steps, such as requiring them
The California Attorney General recently published new regulations that implement the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a law that takes some important steps to empower consumer choice. What stands out the most in the new regulations is the explicit prohibitions around deceitful user interfaces (Section 999.315h) when the user exercises their CCPA right to opt-out from sale of their personal information.
“Dark Patterns” are defined by the user experience (UX) researcher who coined the term, Harry Brignull, as “tricks used in websites and apps that make you buy or sign up for things that you didn t mean to.” In this context, dark patterns can be used to undermine the CCPA’s right to opt-out. With this new regulation, it prohibits companies from burdening consumers with confusing language or unnecessary steps. EFF provided comments to encourage adoption of this proposed regulation.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
CPW and its sister blog SPB have been covering developments concerning the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). As we discussed the end of last year, on December 10, 2020, the California Attorney General (“AG”) proposed some modifications to the regulations implementing the CCPA (the “Regulations”). These were published in response to comments received by the AG following publication of the previous set of proposed CCPA modifications on October 12, 2020.
While the proposed modifications to the Regulations were relatively minor in substance, they provided guidance on the following issues:
Refinement of requirement to provide notice at collection (and clarification of prohibition of new or secondary uses of personal information) (Section 999.305);
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