California’s privacy regulator has released draft regs covering cybersecurity audit requirements and risk assessments. While they have not started the formal rulemaking process, they are putting out bait to see what kind of comments they get. They also discussed the drafts at their last meeting. The Draft Cybersecurity Audit Regulations make both modifications and additions to […]
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California AG Rob Bonta has been enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act for over a year now and we are learning what he doesn’t like. One bit of good news that we learned is that notices of violations that he sends out triggers a 30 day cure period and that seems to be working. He […]
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CCPA went into effect just over a year ago. Now we have some history on it. DataGrail is a vendor that helps companies like OVERSTOCK and OKTA respond to those CCPA requests. They have fulfilled millions of “data subject requests” for their clients. Here is what they found. 46% of the requests were to tell […]
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In 2003 California passed Senate Bill 1386 (SB-1386). It was the first online privacy law in the U.S. What followed, over the next 17 years, was that every state in the nation implemented a law, generally modeled after SB-1386. In 2018 California, sort of with a gun to its head, passed CCPA. Again a first […]
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DoD Concerned Covid Will Cause US IP Loss In an interesting analysis, Ellen Lord, DoD’s top acquisition official, is concerned that foreign interests (including unfriendly foreign interests) will buy or invest in small U.S. defense subs and steal our tech. In theory CFIUS and FRRMA should make that harder as the government has the right […]
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California’s new privacy law, CA AB 375 or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) along with it’s attendant modifications and rules goes into effect next week. As companies scurry around to meet the January 1, 2020 deadline, here is some information on what CCPA means to the average resident of California and elsewhere. While CCPA […]
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