2020 Vision: California sees the future, and it looks like GDPR
The California Consumer Privacy Act is set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, enacting a series of sweeping data privacy reforms for the state’s nearly 40 million citizens. In a classic David-vs.-Goliath scenario, California residents will have the power to call at least some of the shots on how their data is used by corporate behemoths in Silicon Valley and beyond.
While residents of all 50 states are already covered under a patchwork of breach notification and privacy laws, the California legislation introduces some significant changes. Californians will have the power to ask companies to cough up all the data they’ve collected about them. They also will be able to tell these same companies to delete everything – personal information, data on what’s been shared, clicked on, and more — much like European Union residents are protected under the GDPR’s “right to be forgotten.”
What can we expect looking forward?
