Starting next week, the California Department of Justice will hold six public forums on how the state should implement its landmark privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). Although California enacted the CCPA in June 2018, the state is still in the process of implementing the new legislation, and the public forums “will provide an initial opportunity for the public to participate in the CCPA rulemaking process,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced in a December 19 press release. The CCPA, which is considered the most stringent privacy law in the country, takes effect on January 1, 2020. The legislation requires the Attorney General to adopt certain regulations by July 1, 2020, which will clarify the CCPA’s substantive requirements. For instance, the Attorney General must adopt regulations “[t]o facilitate and govern the submission of a request by a consumer to opt out of the sale of…
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