The right to pursue and obtain privacy is specifically protected by the California Constitution. In addition, California is the State with the most comprehensive privacy law in the US, the CCPA, which entered into effect on January 1, 2020.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides California residents with rights regarding their personal information, including the right to know, delete, and opt-out of the sale of their data.
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) expands these rights and introduces additional protections, such as the right to correct inaccurate data and limit the use of sensitive personal information.
A data breach is a cyber attack where private and protected information is leaked from a system by an unauthorized party. A breach can expose these types of confidential information:
• Legal names
• Addresses, emails and phone numbers
• Social Security numbers
• Driver’s license numbers
• Bank account numbers
• Passport details
• Insurance policy details
• Employment information
• Medical records and prescription information
Any information stored in a particular system is at risk of a breach. Malicious actors target systems that provide large stores of sensitive data.
California’s data privacy law, encompassing the CCPA and CPRA, grants residents control over their personal information, providing rights to access, delete, and opt-out of data sale, while adding provisions on correction and limiting the use of sensitive data.
California’s data protection laws, primarily through the CCPA and the CPRA, collectively establish a comprehensive framework that empowers residents with significant control over their personal information, including rights to access, correct, delete, and opt-out of the sale or sharing of their data, while imposing strict obligations on businesses regarding data collection, processing, and security, and introducing specific protections for sensitive personal information, thereby setting a precedent for robust privacy practices in the United States.
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