Via ShutterstockOPINION – This year, the California business community has found itself in an untenable—and frankly, bizarre—position of being out of compliance with regulations that do not yet exist. How did we get here?
An illustration of the California Consumer Privacy Act. (Image: Panchenko Vladimir, via Shutterstock)OPINION: The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is off and running full speed ahead, and like a runaway train, there is little to do to stop it before we witness a train wreck. The issues around process, lack of oversight, enforcement confusion, increased costs, overreach, and aggressive expansion are causes for significant concern.
Keys on a computer representing the state of California. (Image: Per Bengtsson, via Shutterstock)OPINION: Over the past two years, California’s grocer community has overcome supply chain complications, unprecedented demand, and workforce challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now contending with record inflation, the last thing grocers and their customers need are unintended consequences from the state’s new online privacy regulations, which pose a threat to how consumers access savings opportunities and e-commerce shopping tools like curbside pick-up and delivery.
An illustration of the California Consumer Privacy Agency in a digital universe. (Photo: iD_studio, via Shutterstock)OPINION: California’s new online privacy agency is openly defying the voter-approved proposition that created it. The agency’s board has thus far sidestepped its obligation to keep staff from bungling a historic opportunity to ensure the first comprehensive privacy regulations in the nation are just, equitable and fair.