The New California Privacy Law—Should You Care?
August 2, 2018California Companies—Did you get tagged?
Companies Subject to the California Privacy Law
By Eric Little
The new California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 applies to for-profit entrepreneurs and companies doing business in the State of California that, alone or jointly with others, collect personal information on California residents and that meet one or more of the following criteria:
Companies Subject to the California Privacy Law
By Eric Little
The new California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 applies to for-profit entrepreneurs and companies doing business in the State of California that, alone or jointly with others, collect personal information on California residents and that meet one or more of the following criteria:
(A) Have annual gross revenues in excess of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000);
(B) Receive, sell, or share the personal information of 50,000 or more California residents, households, or devices capable of connecting to the internet or to another device.
(C) Derive 50 percent or more of its annual revenues from selling the personal information of California residents.
The law also captures companies that control or are controlled by a business that meets the criteria set forth above, and which share a common name, service mark or trademark.
The $25 million in revenue test will reach a great many companies, but the other two tests will capture even smaller companies that track basic information on California residents. For example, your business would qualify if it tracked information on only half of the residents in Nevada County or their households or devices.
