The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a California state statute enacted in 2018 that grants California residents rights over the personal information that businesses collect about them, including the right to know, the right to delete, the right to opt out of sale, and the right to non-discrimination.
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- The California Consumer Privacy Act provides California residents with rights including the ability to know what personal information is collected, to request its deletion and to opt out of its sale. It applies to qualifying businesses that handle the data of California residents.
- The statute is frequently compared with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, with which it shares broad aims while differing in scope and mechanism. Subsequent amendments have expanded and refined the rights it confers.