CCPA for Employers after AB 25

CCPA for Employers after AB 25

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, 2020 and offers additional protection for California residents’ personal information. Specifically, the CCPA provides consumers with the ability to know what personal information is being collected about them, to know whether their personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom, and to access their personal information that has been collected. Assembly Bill 25 was passed during the last legislative session of 2019 and stayed enforcement of many of the CCPA’s requirements for personal information collected within the context of employment until January 1, 2021. While legislators and data privacy professionals alike believe there will be additional legislative activity during this one-year stay of enforcement, there is a chance that the other CCPA requirements (e.g., data portability and deletion requests) will apply to personal information collected within the context of employment in the near future.