The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced that they have begun the formal rulemaking process to adopt the proposed regulations that implement the Consumer Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). The CPRA amends the California Consumer Protection Act of 2020 and provides new substantive privacy requirements.
The CPPA has filed the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that starts a 45-day public comment period, which will close on August 23, 2022. Based on the submitted comments, the CPPA may make changes to the proposed regulations. If major changes are made, the CPPA is required to have another 45-day comment period; however, if only substantive or sufficiently related changes are made, then the comment period is shortened to 15 days. A comment period is not required if no changes are made or changes are insubstantial. According to the CPPA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the “proposed regulations primarily do three things: (1) update existing CCPA regulations to harmonize them with CPRA amendments to the CCPA; (2) operationalize new rights and concepts introduced by the CPRA to provide clarity and specificity to implement the law; and (3) reorganize and consolidate requirements set forth in the law to make the regulations easier to follow and understand.
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