California has been a leader in consumer data privacy law. But those protections don’t mean much if they’re not being enforced.
So, under a sweeping voter initiative that took effect this year, the state has created an agency dedicated to the task. It’s the first of its kind in the U.S., which, unlike Europe, has no comprehensive federal data privacy regulation.
Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Ashkan Soltani, the executive director of the new California Privacy Protection Agency. He said one of his goals is to educate the public about their rights under the newly expanded California Privacy Rights Act. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.
Ashkan Soltani: Californians have some unique rights under this law. So they have the right to access, delete and stop the sale of their personal information to third parties. They also have the ability to require that businesses, for example, correct information that’s not accurate or stop the sale and use of sensitive personal information. The California law also provides additional protections. For example, [it] requires businesses to employ data minimization, which means to not use data beyond what is reasonably necessary and proportionate for the purpose for which it was collected.
Meghan McCarty Carino: And the CPRA also, for the first time, covers data privacy in the workplace, right? How significant is that?
Soltani: So employees do now have the ability to exercise their privacy rights, like...
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