Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP write:
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the nation’s broadest privacy protection statute, was enacted by the California Legislature in June 2018 as part of a last-minute deal to stop a proposed statewide ballot measure that could have ushered in an even stricter privacy law. We have written about the CCPA’s passage in earlier alerts.
Sponsored by San Francisco real estate magnate Alastair Mctaggart and privacy advocacy groups, the ballot measure was strongly opposed by business groups and tech interests. Racing to beat a statutory deadline for the Mctaggart measure to be placed on the ballot, the Legislature hastily passed the CCPA in June while promising to introduce cleanup legislation after the summer recess.
Efforts to substantively revise the CCPA began nearly immediately after its passage, with the AGO (the chief enforcement agency for the CCPA), business groups, and privacy activists pressing for focused changes. Those efforts coalesced around Senate Bill 1121 (SB 1121) in August.
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