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Elizabeth Dill Quoted for American Lawyer Article on California Consumer Privacy Act

(March 4, 2019) – Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Partner Elizabeth R. Dill was recently quoted in an article from The American Lawyer, “Dazed and Confused: Gray Areas in the Golden State’s New Privacy Law.” The article looks into the effects of the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)  on companies, and how law firms are planning for its forthcoming implementation on January 1, 2020.

Ms. Dill spoke to The American Lawyer about how Lewis Brisbois is helping companies determine whether the CCPA applies to them.

“What we usually do is prepare an assessment for clients based on a questionnaire that they fill out for us,” Ms. Dill explained, “and the answers to the questions determine, for our purposes, whether or not we’re going to proceed forward and recommend that they start the process of compliance.”

As the article notes, a company may be subject to CCPA regulations even if they are not based in California, as long as the personal information of a California resident is involved. As Ms. Dill points out, the CCPA has expanded the definition of “personal information” for purposes of the new regulations.

“We ask about what kinds of information [companies] handle, what kinds they store, what kinds they transmit, if they sell any kind of personal information,” Ms. Dill said. “But one of the things that’s interesting about the CCPA, like the GDPR, is that the definition of personal information is much broader than even California’s data breach notification statute.”

The new definition, along with other potential ambiguities in the law, will provide much discussion in the months ahead.

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