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Government,
Corporate

Jan. 14, 2020

The CCPA is not Y2K 2.0

For privacy lawyers old enough to remember, December 2019 felt oddly reminiscent of December 1999. There was a lingering sense of danger ahead and fear of the unknown, but also skepticism.

Tanya Forsheit

Partner
Loeb & Loeb LLP

privacy, security and data innovations

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For privacy lawyers old enough to remember, December 2019 felt oddly reminiscent of December 1999. There was a lingering sense of danger ahead and fear of the unknown, but also skepticism. Was CCPA to 2019 what Y2K was to 1999? The California Consumer Privacy Act, which took effect on Jan. 1 (now codified at Sections 1798.100-.199 of the Civil Code), is a Frankenstein’s Monster of a law. In a short week in the summer of 2018, representatives of the very largest Silico...

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