Published: September 2022

Groups urge clearer guidance from the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)

Consumer Action joined allies in comments commending the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) for its work to establish data privacy protections for Californians and urged the agency to provide consumers and businesses clearer guidance with respect to their rights and obligations.

Consumer Action joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) Education Fund, Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), Ranking Digital Rights, and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) in comments in response to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)’s invitation for public input concerning the agency’s development of regulations under the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) and the California Consumer Protection Act of 2018 (CCPA). The groups commended the agency for its work to establish data privacy protections for Californians and urged the agency to include more use cases and more detail in the regulations to provide consumers and businesses clear guidance with respect to their rights and obligations. Among the recommendations was to include an illustrative example to definition of 'request to opt-in to sale/sharing' to make clear what type of action sufficiently demonstrates 'that the consumer has consented to the business' sale or sharing of personal information about the consumer by a parent or guardian of a consumer less than 13 years of age or by a consumer at least 13 years of age'. And that the rules should also make clear whether written permission, when required for data use requests is something that must be given on paper or whether it may be electronic.

Lead Organization

EPIC

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