Privacy.Minded. - CCPA Insight: The Attorney General Responded To 1,411 Public Comments During The Rulemaking Process. Here Are Four Things You Should Know.

Travis Brennan and Ahmad Takouche authored the alert under Stradling’s Privacy.Minded. banner, "CCPA Insight: The Attorney General Responded To 1,411 Public Comments During The Rulemaking Process. Here Are Four Things You Should Know."

On June 1, 2020, California’s Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”) provided more than just its final proposed regulations for implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to the California Office of Administrative Law. The OAG’s submission also included a 59-page Final Statement of Reasons (“SoR”) detailing the OAG’s reasons for the changes it made to the original draft regulations, and the SoR incorporated several appendices listing the OAG’s responses to no less than 1,411 comments received from the public during the rulemaking process. While the SoR won’t have the force of law, it provides a window into how the OAG, which is responsible for enforcing the CCPA, views some of the act’s most significant requirements. Here are three of the many key takeaways for companies that meet the CCPA’s definition of a covered “business.”