We survived GDPRmmagedon, and now we’re being warned about aCCPAcalypse 2020 when the California Consumer Privacy Act becomes enforceable on July 1st. Privacy and security are significant concerns for consumers, and it’s critically important you’re aware of how this law impacts you, your clients, and site users.
Besides empowering the California Attorney General to prosecute CCPA violations and issuing fines, the law enables consumers to bring private actions and class action suits. The legal fees and costs to defend CCPA violation suits should be incentive enough to ensure you’re compliant. This expansion of consumers’ privacy rights is a welcome response to the lack of transparency and regulation and massive breaches, sharing, selling, and publication of consumer data. Businesses that prepared adequately for GDPR still need to tweak a few things for CCPA compliance, but it’s not the terrifying challenge the media is making it out to be.
You still have time to prepare and get your WordPress site and business CCPA-ready. Rian will provide an overview of what you need to know about CCPA, the compliance best practices you need to adhere to for maintaining compliance, and resources for managing your compliance, which include the built-in WordPress features driven by the Core Privacy team.
