California is preparing for the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to come into effect on 1 January 2020, and of all the Silicon Valley companies likely to be affected by the new regulation, Facebook, for one, has declared that it is “ready for California’s new privacy law”.
The CCPA was passed last year by California’s state governor and is one of the strictest bills on data privacy in the US. It grants Californian users the right to request a business to disclose, for no fee, the personal information that is being collected about them, as well as whether it is sold or shared and to whom.
