In an effort to give consumers more control over the data businesses collect from and about them, the California legislature passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in 2018 (and amended it a few months later). The CCPA gives consumers the right to know about and have deleted the data businesses have gathered about them, among other rights. However, the CCPA applies to “consumers” and defines “consumers” so widely that it would cover employees and job applicants, which are not ordinarily understood to be consumers.
Read the full blog post on Proskauer’s California Employment Law Update.