Understanding CCPA (Part-1)

What is CCPA?

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a privacy law designed to give residents of California more control over their personal information.

What rights do you have under CCPA?

If you are a California resident, you may ask businesses to (I) disclose what personal information they have about you and what they do with that information, (II) to delete your personal information, (III) to direct businesses not to sell or share your personal information, (IV) to correct inaccurate information that they have about you, (V) and to limit businesses’ use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information:

• Right to know: You can request that a business disclose to you: (1) the categories and/or specific pieces of personal information they have collected about you, (2) the categories of sources for that personal information, (3) the purposes for which the business uses that information, (4) the categories of third parties with whom the business discloses the information, and (5) the categories of information that the business sells or discloses to third parties. You can make a request to know up to twice a year, free of charge.
• Right to delete: You can request that businesses delete personal information they collected from you and tell their service providers to do the same, subject to certain exceptions (such as if the business is legally required to keep the information).
• Right to opt-out of…