SAN DIEGO -- The right to delete seems simple, maybe deceptively so, though California's new Deletion Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP) is attempting to reduce complications, panelists said during IAPP's privacy and security conference Friday.
The California Privacy Protection Agency’s rulemaking priorities should include discussion of four items: opt-out preference signals, “reducing friction in the exercise of privacy rights,” disclosures and notices, and employee data, according to meeting materials for the CPPA Board’s Friday meeting (see 2510280048).
Mozilla wants other states and the federal government to follow California in requiring universal opt-out mechanisms, the maker of the Firefox browser said in a blog post Wednesday.
New Jersey state Sen. Joseph Cryan (D) on Monday introduced S-4739, which would criminalize a private citizen recording a telephone call or other conversation unless all parties consent. It was referred to the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee. According to the bill, New Jersey currently requires consent of only one party in the conversation for recording.
California’s newly minted Digital Age Assurance Act “will likely create significant compliance challenges for many businesses,” blogged David Stauss and two other Troutman privacy lawyers on Monday.
California added to companies’ increasing worries “about being viewed as ‘selling’ personal data” earlier this month when Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an update to the California Delete Act, Sheppard Mullin attorneys Lissa Thomas and Kathryn Smith blogged Thursday.
No states have enacted new comprehensive privacy laws in 2025, so far, but “half of those with laws already on the books have made significant amendments to their scopes and requirements,” IAPP said Monday in releasing its revised report on state privacy laws. The report found that eight states updated their privacy laws in 2025: Colorado, Connecticut, Kentucky, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Virginia.
Businesses should comb through their data-collection practices to comply with the unusual aspects of the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), Kelley Drye privacy lawyers Aaron Burstein and Austin Del Priore blogged Friday.
The California Privacy Protection Agency launched a webpage for consumers Friday previewing the agency’s upcoming Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP), Executive Director Tom Kemp posted on LinkedIn. The agency plans to release the accessible data deletion mechanism Jan. 1.
The California DOJ will hold a Nov. 5 public hearing as part of the lead-up to a rulemaking for the state’s new social media addiction regulation, Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced Thursday.