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California’s New Privacy Law Matters No Matter Where You Live
Data security is important now more than ever
With companies across the world economy feeling an unprecedented economic crisis as a result of Covid-19, many recently banded together to ask for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to be delayed. The California attorney general was unmoved. In a statement reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, the attorney general’s office seemed to imply that Covid-19 made enforcement of the act more urgent, rather than less so, saying:
We’re committed to enforcing the law starting July 1… We encourage businesses to be particularly mindful of data security in this time of emergency.
2020 has been a wild year for privacy. In January, the New York Times broke their story about Clearview AI, and we learned that the company has been quietly building face-linked profiles on nearly everyone, accessible to law enforcement agencies via a simple search.
Then Covid-19 struck, and concepts like Zoombombing became household terms. We now…
