California Assembly Bill Aims to Avert State Ballot Initiative Related to Privacy

On June 21, 2018, California lawmakers introduced AB 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “Bill”). If enacted and signed by the Governor by June 28, 2018, the Bill would introduce key privacy requirements for businesses, but would also result in the removal of a ballot initiative of the same name from the November 6, 2018, statewide ballot. We previously reported on the relevant ballot initiative. The Bill expands some of the requirements in the ballot initiative. For example, if enacted, the Bill would require businesses to disclose (e.g., in its Privacy Notice) the categories of personal information it collects about California consumers and the purposes for which that information is used. The Bill also would require businesses to disclose, upon a California consumer’s verifiable request, the categories and specific pieces of personal information it has collected about the consumer, as well as the business purposes for collecting or selling…

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