California state officials are in the process of hiring executives and staff members to work at the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), the new state agency that is tasked with regulating data privacy starting in January 2023.
The CPPA is the enforcement mechanism for the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the new data privacy law California voters approved via the passage of Proposition 24 in the November 2020 election.
The CPRA will largely replace the existing California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which was passed by the California State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in 2018. The same privacy rights advocates who initially wrote CCPA subsequently wrote the CPRA out of concern that politicians were watering down the CCPA. Since CPRA was passed by the state’s initiative process, it can’t be tinkered with by state senators or assembly members.
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