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    Three questions on California’s new privacy law

    Feb 04, 2020 2 minutes

    Passed unanimously by the state’s legislature in June 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took effect on Jan. 1. Aimed at giving consumers in California more control over their personal data, the law could extend far beyond the Golden State’s borders.

    “If we do this right in California,” said the attorney general, Xavier Becerra, in a November press conference, the state will “put the capital P back into

    What does the law do?Why did the law come about now?How is the law apt to change privacy?

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