After several rounds of comment periods and amendments, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra submitted the latest round of proposed rules this week for the California Consumer Privacy Act.
Becerra’s timing caught industry by surprise as the U.S. grapples with protests following the killing of George Floyd, an economic contraction and a pandemic.
“I’m still in shock,” Heather Federman, VP of Privacy & Policy at data privacy firm BigID, told CIO Dive, referring to the timing of the rules’ publication. The latest proposal might get lost in the shuffle.
