(a)A person or business shall not collect, use, disclose, or retain the personal information of a person who is physically located at, or within a precise geolocation of, a family planning center, except as specified in subdivision (c).

(b)For purposes of this section:

(1)Business has the same meaning as defined in Section 1798.140.

(2)Collect has the same meaning as defined in Section 1798.140.

(3)Family planning center means a business categorized as a family planning center by the North American Industry Classification System adopted by the United States Census Bureau, including, but not limited to, a clinic or center that provides reproductive health care services as defined in Section 1798.300.

(4)Personal information has the same meaning as defined in Section 1798.140, except as applied to all persons and not limited to consumers and households, as those terms are defined in that section.

(5)Precise geolocation means a geographic area that is equal to or less than the area of a circle with a radius of 1,850 feet as derived from a device that is used or intended to be used to locate a person.

(6)Sell has the same meaning as defined in Section 1798.140.

(7)Share has the same meaning as defined in Section 1798.140.

(c)A person or business shall not collect, use, disclose, or retain the personal information of a person who is physically located at, or within a precise geolocation of, a family planning center, except only as necessary to perform the services or provide the goods requested by the person. A person or business shall not sell or share this personal information.

(d)(1)An aggrieved person or entity, including a family planning center, may institute and prosecute a civil action against any person or business who violates this section for injunctive and monetary relief and attorneys fees within three years of discovery of the violation.

(2)If the court finds for the petitioner in an action authorized by paragraph (1), recovery shall be in the amount of three times the amount of actual damages and any other expenses, costs, or reasonable attorneys fees incurred in connection with the litigation.

(e)This section does not apply to a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or contractor, as those terms are defined in Section 56.05.

Consumers Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

(a)A consumer shall have the right, at any time, to direct a business that collects sensitive personal information about the consumer to limit its use of the consumers sensitive personal information to that use which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those goods or services, to perform the services set forth in paragraphs (2), (4), (5), and (8) of subdivision (f) of Section 1798.140, and as authorized by regulations adopted pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (19) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185. A business that uses or discloses a consumers sensitive personal information for purposes other than those specified in this subdivision shall provide notice to consumers, pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1798.135, that this information may be used, or disclosed to a service provider or contractor, for additional, specified purposes and that consumers have the right to limit the use or disclosure of their sensitive personal information.

(b)A business that has received direction from a consumer not to use or disclose the consumers sensitive personal information, except as authorized by subdivision (a), shall be prohibited, pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (c) of Section 1798.135, from using or disclosing the consumers sensitive personal information for any other purpose after its receipt of the consumers direction unless the consumer subsequently provides consent for the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information for additional purposes.

(c)A service provider or contractor that assists a business in performing the purposes authorized by subdivision (a) may not use the sensitive personal information after it has received instructions from the business and to the extent it has actual knowledge that the personal information is sensitive personal information for any other purpose. A service provider or contractor is only required to limit its use of sensitive personal information received pursuant to a written contract with the business in response to instructions from the business and only with respect to its relationship with that business.

(d)Sensitive personal information that is collected or processed without the purpose of inferring characteristics about a consumer is not subject to this section, as further defined in regulations adopted pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (19) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, and shall be treated as personal information for purposes of all other sections of this act, including Section 1798.100.

Notice, Disclosure, Correction, and Deletion Requirements

(a)In order to comply with Sections 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, and 1798.125, a business shall, in a form that is reasonably accessible to consumers:

(1)(A)Make available to consumers two or more designated methods for submitting requests for information required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115, or requests for deletion or correction pursuant to Sections 1798.105 and 1798.106, respectively, including, at a minimum, a toll-free telephone number. A business that operates exclusively online and has a direct relationship with a consumer from whom it collects personal information shall only be required to provide an email address for submitting requests for information required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115, or for requests for deletion or correction pursuant to Sections 1798.105 and 1798.106, respectively.

(B)If the business maintains an internet website, make the internet website available to consumers to submit requests for information required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115, or requests for deletion or correction pursuant to Sections 1798.105 and 1798.106, respectively.

(2)(A)Disclose and deliver the required information to a consumer free of charge, correct inaccurate personal information, or delete a consumers personal information, based on the consumers request, within 45 days of receiving a verifiable consumer request from the consumer. The business shall promptly take steps to determine whether the request is a verifiable consumer request, but this shall not extend the businesss duty to disclose and deliver the information, to correct inaccurate personal information, or to delete personal information within 45 days of receipt of the consumers request. The time period to provide the required information, to correct inaccurate personal information, or to delete personal information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary, provided the consumer is provided notice of the extension within the first 45-day period. The disclosure of the required information shall be made in writing and delivered through the consumers account with the business, if the consumer maintains an account with the business, or by mail or electronically at the consumers option if the consumer does not maintain an account with the business, in a readily useable format that allows the consumer to transmit this information from one entity to another entity without hindrance. The business may require authentication of the consumer that is reasonable in light of the nature of the personal information requested, but shall not require the consumer to create an account with the business in order to make a verifiable consumer request provided that if the consumer, has an account with the business, the business may require the consumer to use that account to submit a verifiable consumer request.

(B)The disclosure of the required information shall cover the 12-month period preceding the business receipt of the verifiable consumer request provided that, upon the adoption of a regulation pursuant to paragraph (9) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, a consumer may request that the business disclose the required information beyond the 12-month period, and the business shall be required to provide that information unless doing so proves impossible or would involve a disproportionate effort. A consumers right to request required information beyond the 12-month period, and a businesss obligation to provide that information, shall only apply to personal information collected on or after January 1, 2022. Nothing in this subparagraph shall require a business to keep personal information for any length of time.

(3)(A)A business that receives a verifiable consumer request pursuant to Section 1798.110 or 1798.115 shall disclose any personal information it has collected about a consumer, directly or indirectly, including through or by a service provider or contractor, to the consumer. A service provider or contractor shall not be required to comply with a verifiable consumer request received directly from a consumer or a consumers authorized agent, pursuant to Section 1798.110 or 1798.115, to the extent that the service provider or contractor has collected personal information about the consumer in its role as a service provider or contractor. A service provider or contractor shall provide assistance to a business with which it has a contractual relationship with respect to the business response to a verifiable consumer request, including, but not limited to, by providing to the business the consumers personal information in the service providers or contractors possession, which the service provider or contractor obtained as a result of providing services to the business, and by correcting inaccurate information or by enabling the business to do the same. A service provider or contractor that collects personal information pursuant to a written contract with a business shall be required to assist the business through appropriate technical and organizational measures in complying with the requirements of subdivisions (d) to (f), inclusive, of Section 1798.100, taking into account the nature of the processing.

(B)For purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 1798.110:

(i)To identify the consumer, associate the information provided by the consumer in the verifiable consumer request to any personal information previously collected by the business about the consumer.

(ii)Identify by category or categories the personal information collected about the consumer for the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information collected; the categories of sources from which the consumers personal information was collected; the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing the consumers personal information; and the categories of third parties to whom the business discloses the consumers personal information.

(iii)Provide the specific pieces of personal information obtained from the consumer in a format that is easily understandable to the average consumer, and to the extent technically feasible, in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format that may also be transmitted to another entity at the consumers request without hindrance. Specific pieces of information do not include data generated to help ensure security and integrity or as prescribed by regulation. Personal information is not considered to have been disclosed by a business when a consumer instructs a business to transfer the consumers personal information from one business to another in the context of switching services.

(4)For purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 1798.115:

(A)Identify the consumer and associate the information provided by the consumer in the verifiable consumer request to any personal information previously collected by the business about the consumer.

(B)Identify by category or categories the personal information of the consumer that the business sold or shared during the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information, and provide the categories of third parties to whom the consumers personal information was sold or shared during the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information sold or shared. The business shall disclose the information in a list that is separate from a list generated for the purposes of subparagraph (C).

(C)Identify by category or categories the personal information of the consumer that the business disclosed for a business purpose during the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information, and provide the categories of persons to whom the consumers personal information was disclosed for a business purpose during the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information disclosed. The business shall disclose the information in a list that is separate from a list generated for the purposes of subparagraph (B).

(5)Disclose the following information in its online privacy policy or policies if the business has an online privacy policy or policies and in any California-specific description of consumers privacy rights, or if the business does not maintain those policies, on its internet website, and update that information at least once every 12 months:

(A)A description of a consumers rights pursuant to Sections 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, and 1798.125 and two or more designated methods for submitting requests, except as provided in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a).

(B)For purposes of subdivision (c) of Section 1798.110:

(i)A list of the categories of personal information it has collected about consumers in the preceding 12 months by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describe the personal information collected.

(ii)The categories of sources from which consumers personal information is collected.

(iii)The business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing consumers personal information.

(iv)The categories of third parties to whom the business discloses consumers personal information.

(C)For purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 1798.115, two separate lists:

(i)A list of the categories of personal information it has sold or shared about consumers in the preceding 12 months by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describe the personal information sold or shared, or if the business has not sold or shared consumers personal information in the preceding 12 months, the business shall prominently disclose that fact in its privacy policy.

(ii)A list of the categories of personal information it has disclosed about consumers for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months by reference to the enumerated category in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information disclosed, or if the business has not disclosed consumers personal information for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months, the business shall disclose that fact.

(6)Ensure that all individuals responsible for handling consumer inquiries about the business privacy practices or the business compliance with this title are informed of all requirements in Sections 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, 1798.125, and this section, and how to direct consumers to exercise their rights under those sections.

(7)Use any personal information collected from the consumer in connection with the business verification of the consumers request solely for the purposes of verification and shall not further disclose the personal information, retain it longer than necessary for purposes of verification, or use it for unrelated purposes.

(b)A business is not obligated to provide the information required by Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115 to the same consumer more than twice in a 12-month period.

(c)The categories of personal information required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 1798.100, 1798.110, and 1798.115 shall follow the definitions of personal information and sensitive personal information in Section 1798.140 by describing the categories of personal information using the specific terms set forth in subparagraphs (A) to (K), inclusive, of paragraph (1) of subdivision (x) (y) of Section 1798.140 and by describing the categories of sensitive personal information using the specific terms set forth in paragraphs (1) to (9), inclusive, of subdivision (ah) (ai) of Section 1798.140.

Definitions

For purposes of this title:

(a)Advertising and marketing means a communication by a business or a person acting on the business behalf in any medium intended to induce a consumer to obtain goods, services, or employment.

(b)Aggregate consumer information means information that relates to a group or category of consumers, from which individual consumer identities have been removed, that is not linked or reasonably linkable to any consumer or household, including via a device. Aggregate consumer information does not mean one or more individual consumer records that have been deidentified.

(c)Artificial intelligence means an engineered or machine-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and that can, for explicit or implicit objectives, infer from the input it receives how to generate outputs that can influence physical or virtual environments.

(d)Biometric information means an individuals physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics, including information pertaining to an individuals deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), that is used or is intended to be used singly or in combination with each other or with other identifying data, to establish individual identity. Biometric information includes, but is not limited to, imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, face, hand, palm, vein patterns, and voice recordings, from which an identifier template, such as a faceprint, a minutiae template, or a voiceprint, can be extracted, and keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information.

(e)Business means:

(1)A sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, association, or other legal entity that is organized or operated for the profit or financial benefit of its shareholders or other owners, that collects consumers personal information, or on the behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers personal information, that does business in the state, and that satisfies one or more of the following thresholds:

(A)As of January 1 of the calendar year, had annual gross revenues in excess of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) in the preceding calendar year, as adjusted pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185.

(B)Alone or in combination, annually buys, sells, or shares the personal information of 100,000 or more consumers or households.

(C)Derives 50 percent or more of its annual revenues from selling or sharing consumers personal information.

(2)Any entity that controls or is controlled by a business, as defined in paragraph (1), and that shares common branding with the business and with whom the business shares consumers personal information. Control or controlled means ownership of, or the power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a business; control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors, or of individuals exercising similar functions; or the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management of a company. Common branding means a shared name, servicemark, service mark, or trademark that the average consumer would understand that two or more entities are commonly owned.

(3)A joint venture or partnership composed of businesses in which each business has at least a 40 percent interest. For purposes of this title, the joint venture or partnership and each business that composes the joint venture or partnership shall separately be considered a single business, except that personal information in the possession of each business and disclosed to the joint venture or partnership shall not be shared with the other business.

(4)A person that does business in California, that is not covered by paragraph (1), (2), or (3), and that voluntarily certifies to the California Privacy Protection Agency that it is in compliance with, and agrees to be bound by, this title.

(f)Business purpose means the use of personal information for the business operational purposes, or other notified purposes, or for the service providers or contractors operational purposes, as defined by regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (11) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, provided that the use of personal information shall be reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the purpose for which the personal information was collected or processed or for another purpose that is compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected. Business purposes are:

(1)Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards.

(2)Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumers personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes.

(3)Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

(4)Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, nonpersonalized advertising shown as part of a consumers current interaction with the business, provided that the consumers personal information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about the consumer or otherwise alter the consumers experience outside the current interaction with the business.

(5)Performing services on behalf of the business, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on behalf of the business.

(6)Providing advertising and marketing services, except for cross-context behavioral advertising, to the consumer provided that, for the purpose of advertising and marketing, a service provider or contractor shall not combine the personal information of opted-out consumers that the service provider or contractor receives from, or on behalf of, the business with personal information that the service provider or contractor receives from, or on behalf of, another person or persons or collects from its own interaction with consumers.

(7)Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration.

(8)Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business.

(g)Collects, collected, or collection means buying, renting, gathering, obtaining, receiving, or accessing any personal information pertaining to a consumer by any means. This includes receiving information from the consumer, either actively or passively, or by observing the consumers behavior.

(h)Commercial purposes means to advance a persons commercial or economic interests, such as by inducing another person to buy, rent, lease, join, subscribe to, provide, or exchange products, goods, property, information, or services, or enabling or effecting, directly or indirectly, a commercial transaction.

(i)Consent means any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the consumers wishes by which the consumer, or the consumers legal guardian, a person who has power of attorney, or a person acting as a conservator for the consumer, including by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal information relating to the consumer for a narrowly defined particular purpose. Acceptance of a general or broad terms of use, or similar document, that contains descriptions of personal information processing along with other, unrelated information, does not constitute consent. Hovering over, muting, pausing, or closing a given piece of content does not constitute consent. Likewise, agreement obtained through use of dark patterns does not constitute consent.

(j)Consumer means a natural person who is a California resident, as defined in Section 17014 of Title 18 of the California Code of Regulations, as that section read on September 1, 2017, however identified, including by any unique identifier.

(k)(1)Contractor means a person to whom the business makes available a consumers personal information for a business purpose, pursuant to a written contract with the business, provided that the contract:

(A)Prohibits the contractor from:

(i)Selling or sharing the personal information.

(ii)Retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for any purpose other than for the business purposes specified in the contract, including retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for a commercial purpose other than the business purposes specified in the contract, or as otherwise permitted by this title.

(iii)Retaining, using, or disclosing the information outside of the direct business relationship between the contractor and the business.

(iv)Combining the personal information that the contractor receives pursuant to a written contract with the business with personal information that it receives from or on behalf of another person or persons, or collects from its own interaction with the consumer, provided that the contractor may combine personal information to perform any business purpose as defined in regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (10) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, except as provided for in paragraph (6) of subdivision (f) and in regulations adopted by the California Privacy Protection Agency.

(B)Includes a certification made by the contractor that the contractor understands the restrictions in subparagraph (A) and will comply with them.

(C)Permits, subject to agreement with the contractor, the business to monitor the contractors compliance with the contract through measures, including, but not limited to, ongoing manual reviews and automated scans and regular assessments, audits, or other technical and operational testing at least once every 12 months.

(2)If a contractor engages any other person to assist it in processing personal information for a business purpose on behalf of the business, or if any other person engaged by the contractor engages another person to assist in processing personal information for that business purpose, it shall notify the business of that engagement, and the engagement shall be pursuant to a written contract binding the other person to observe all the requirements set forth in paragraph (1).

(l)Cross-context behavioral advertising means the targeting of advertising to a consumer based on the consumers personal information obtained from the consumers activity across businesses, distinctly-branded websites, applications, or services, other than the business, distinctly-branded website, application, or service with which the consumer intentionally interacts.

(m)Dark pattern means a user interface designed or manipulated with the substantial effect of subverting or impairing user autonomy, decisionmaking, or choice, as further defined by regulation.

(n)Deidentified means information that cannot reasonably be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular consumer provided that the business that possesses the information:

(1)Takes reasonable measures to ensure that the information cannot be associated with a consumer or household.

(2)Publicly commits to maintain and use the information in deidentified form and not to attempt to reidentify the information, except that the business may attempt to reidentify the information solely for the purpose of determining whether its deidentification processes satisfy the requirements of this subdivision.

(3)Contractually obligates any recipients of the information to comply with all provisions of this subdivision.

(o)Designated methods for submitting requests means a mailing address, email address, internet web page, internet web portal, toll-free telephone number, or other applicable contact information, whereby consumers may submit a request or direction under this title, and any new, consumer-friendly means of contacting a business, as approved by the Attorney General pursuant to Section 1798.185.

(p)Developer means a qualified business that designs, codes, or otherwise produces an artificial intelligence system or service, or substantially modifies an existing artificial intelligence system or service, by training or retraining fine-tuning the artificial intelligence system or service on personal information.

(q)Device means any physical object that is capable of connecting to the internet, directly or indirectly, or to another device.

(s)Homepage means the introductory page of an internet website and any internet web page where personal information is collected. In the case of an online service, such as a mobile application, homepage means the applications platform page or download page, a link within the application, such as from the application configuration, About, Information, or settings page, and any other location that allows consumers to review the notices required by this title, including, but not limited to, before downloading the application.

(t)Household means a group, however identified, of consumers who cohabitate with one another at the same residential address and share use of common devices or services.

(u)Infer or inference means the derivation of information, data, assumptions, or conclusions from facts, evidence, or another source of information or data.

(v)Intentionally interacts means when the consumer intends to interact with a person, or disclose personal information to a person, via one or more deliberate interactions, including visiting the persons website or purchasing a good or service from the person. Hovering over, muting, pausing, or closing a given piece of content does not constitute a consumers intent to interact with a person.

(w)Nonpersonalized advertising means advertising and marketing that is based solely on a consumers personal information derived from the consumers current interaction with the business with the exception of the consumers precise geolocation.

(x)Person means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, and any other organization or group of persons acting in concert.

(y)(1)Personal information means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. Personal information includes, but is not limited to, the following if it identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could be reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:

(A)Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, drivers license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

(B)Any personal information described in subdivision (e) of Section 1798.80.

(C)Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law.

(D)Commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

(E)Biometric information.

(F)Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumers interaction with an internet website application, or advertisement.

(G)Geolocation data.

(H)Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

(I)Professional or employment-related information.

(J)Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g; 34 C.F.R. Part 99).

(K)Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in this subdivision to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumers preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

(L)Sensitive personal information.

(2)Personal information does not include publicly available information or lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern. For purposes of this paragraph, publicly available means: information that is lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records, or information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public by the consumer or from widely distributed media; or information made available by a person to whom the consumer has disclosed the information if the consumer has not restricted the information to a specific audience. Publicly available does not mean biometric information collected by a business about a consumer without the consumers knowledge.

(3)Personal information does not include consumer information that is deidentified or aggregate consumer information.

(z)Precise geolocation means any data that is derived from a device and that is used or intended to be used to locate a consumer within a geographic area that is equal to or less than the area of a circle with a radius of 1,850 feet, except as prescribed by regulations.

(aa)Probabilistic identifier means the identification of a consumer or a consumers device to a degree of certainty of more probable than not based on any categories of personal information included in, or similar to, the categories enumerated in the definition of personal information.

(ab)Processing means any operation or set of operations that are performed on personal information or on sets of personal information, whether or not by automated means.

(ac)Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal information, as further defined by regulations pursuant to paragraph (16) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person and in particular to analyze or predict aspects concerning that natural persons performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements.

(ad)Pseudonymize orpseudonymization means the processing of personal information in a manner that renders the personal information no longer attributable to a specific consumer without the use of additional information, provided that the additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal information is not attributed to an identified or identifiable consumer.

(ae)Qualified business means a sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, association, or other legal entity that collects consumers personal information, or on the behalf of which that information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers personal information, that does business in the state, and that satisfies one or more of the following thresholds:

(1)As of January 1 of the calendar year, had annual gross revenues in excess of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) in the preceding calendar year, as adjusted pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185.

(2)Alone or in combination, annually buys, sells, or shares the personal information of 100,000 or more consumers or households.

(3)Derives 50 percent or more of its annual revenues from selling or sharing consumers personal information.

(4)Provides a system or service for use in schools.

(af)Research means scientific analysis, systematic study, and observation, including basic research or applied research that is designed to develop or contribute to public or scientific knowledge and that adheres or otherwise conforms to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, including, but not limited to, studies conducted in the public interest in the area of public health. Research with personal information that may have been collected from a consumer in the course of the consumers interactions with a business service or device for other purposes shall be:

(1)Compatible with the business purpose for which the personal information was collected.

(2)Subsequently pseudonymized and deidentified, or deidentified and in the aggregate, such that the information cannot reasonably identify, relate to, describe, be capable of being associated with, or be linked, directly or indirectly, to a particular consumer, by a business.

(3)Made subject to technical safeguards that prohibit reidentification of the consumer to whom the information may pertain, other than as needed to support the research.

(4)Subject to business processes that specifically prohibit reidentification of the information, other than as needed to support the research.

(5)Made subject to business processes to prevent inadvertent release of deidentified information.

(6)Protected from any reidentification attempts.

(7)Used solely for research purposes that are compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected.

(8)Subjected by the business conducting the research to additional security controls that limit access to the research data to only those individuals as are necessary to carry out the research purpose.

(ag)Security and integrity means the ability of:

(1)Networks or information systems to detect security incidents that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal information.

(2)Businesses to detect security incidents, resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions and to help prosecute those responsible for those actions.

(3)Businesses to ensure the physical safety of natural persons.

(ah)(1)Sell, selling, sale, or sold, means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumers personal information by the business to a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

(2)For purposes of this title, a business does not sell personal information when:

(A)A consumer uses or directs the business to intentionally:

(i)Disclose personal information.

(ii)Interact with one or more third parties.

(B)The business uses or shares an identifier for a consumer who has opted out of the sale of the consumers personal information or limited the use of the consumers sensitive personal information for the purposes of alerting persons that the consumer has opted out of the sale of the consumers personal information or limited the use of the consumers sensitive personal information.

(C)The business transfers to a third party the personal information of a consumer as an asset that is part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which the third party assumes control of all or part of the business, provided that information is used or shared consistently with this title. If a third party materially alters how it uses or shares the personal information of a consumer in a manner that is materially inconsistent with the promises made at the time of collection, it shall provide prior notice of the new or changed practice to the consumer. The notice shall be sufficiently prominent and robust to ensure that existing consumers can easily exercise their choices consistently with this title. This subparagraph does not authorize a business to make material, retroactive privacy policy changes or make other changes in their privacy policy in a manner that would violate the Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code).

(ai)Sensitive personal information means:

(1)Personal information that reveals:

(A)A consumers social security, drivers license, state identification card, or passport number.

(B)A consumers account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account.

(C)A consumers precise geolocation.

(D)A consumers racial or ethnic origin, citizenship or immigration status, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership.

(E)The contents of a consumers mail, email, and text messages unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication.

(F)A consumers genetic data.

(2)(A)The processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer.

(B)Personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumers health.

(C)Personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumers sex life or sexual orientation.

(3)Sensitive personal information that is publicly available pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (x) (y) shall not be considered sensitive personal information or personal information.

(aj)Service or services means work, labor, and services, including services furnished in connection with the sale or repair of goods.

(ak)(1)Service provider means a person that processes personal information on behalf of a business and that receives from or on behalf of the business consumers personal information for a business purpose pursuant to a written contract, provided that the contract prohibits the person from:

(A)Selling or sharing the personal information.

(B)Retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for any purpose other than for the business purposes specified in the contract for the business, including retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for a commercial purpose other than the business purposes specified in the contract with the business, or as otherwise permitted by this title.

(C)Retaining, using, or disclosing the information outside of the direct business relationship between the service provider and the business.

(D)Combining the personal information that the service provider receives from, or on behalf of, the business with personal information that it receives from, or on behalf of, another person or persons, or collects from its own interaction with the consumer, provided that the service provider may combine personal information to perform any business purpose as defined in regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (10) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, except as provided for in paragraph (6) of subdivision (f) of this section and in regulations adopted by the California Privacy Protection Agency. The contract may, subject to agreement with the service provider, permit the business to monitor the service providers compliance with the contract through measures, including, but not limited to, ongoing manual reviews and automated scans and regular assessments, audits, or other technical and operational testing at least once every 12 months.

(2)If a service provider engages any other person to assist it in processing personal information for a business purpose on behalf of the business, or if any other person engaged by the service provider engages another person to assist in processing personal information for that business purpose, it shall notify the business of that engagement, and the engagement shall be pursuant to a written contract binding the other person to observe all the requirements set forth in paragraph (1).

(al)(1)Share, shared, or sharing means sharing, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumers personal information by the business to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not for monetary or other valuable consideration, including transactions between a business and a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising for the benefit of a business in which no money is exchanged.

(2)For purposes of this title, a business does not share personal information when:

(A)A consumer uses or directs the business to intentionally disclose personal information or intentionally interact with one or more third parties.

(B)The business uses or shares an identifier for a consumer who has opted out of the sharing of the consumers personal information or limited the use of the consumers sensitive personal information for the purposes of alerting persons that the consumer has opted out of the sharing of the consumers personal information or limited the use of the consumers sensitive personal information.

(C)The business transfers to a third party the personal information of a consumer as an asset that is part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which the third party assumes control of all or part of the business, provided that information is used or shared consistently with this title. If a third party materially alters how it uses or shares the personal information of a consumer in a manner that is materially inconsistent with the promises made at the time of collection, it shall provide prior notice of the new or changed practice to the consumer. The notice shall be sufficiently prominent and robust to ensure that existing consumers can easily exercise their choices consistently with this title. This subparagraph does not authorize a business to make material, retroactive privacy policy changes or make other changes in their privacy policy in a manner that would violate the Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code).

(am)Third party means a person who is not any of the following:

(1)The business with whom the consumer intentionally interacts and that collects personal information from the consumer as part of the consumers current interaction with the business under this title.

(2)A service provider to the business.

(3)A contractor.

(an)Train means to expose an artificial intelligence system or service to data in order to alter the relationship between inputs and outputs.

(ao)Unique identifier or unique personal identifier means a persistent identifier that can be used to recognize a consumer, a family, or a device that is linked to a consumer or family, over time and across different services, including, but not limited to, a device identifier; an Internet Protocol address; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers, or similar technology; customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias; telephone numbers, or other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers that can be used to identify a particular consumer or device that is linked to a consumer or family. For purposes of this subdivision, family means a custodial parent or guardian and any children under 18 years of age over which the parent or guardian has custody.

(ap)Verifiable consumer request means a request that is made by a consumer, by a consumer on behalf of the consumers minor child, by a natural person or a person registered with the Secretary of State, authorized by the consumer to act on the consumers behalf, or by a person who has power of attorney or is acting as a conservator for the consumer, and that the business can verify, using commercially reasonable methods, pursuant to regulations adopted by the Attorney General pursuant to paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185 to be the consumer about whom the business has collected personal information. A business is not obligated to provide information to the consumer pursuant to Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115, to delete personal information pursuant to Section 1798.105, or to correct inaccurate personal information pursuant to Section 1798.106, if the business cannot verify, pursuant to this subdivision and regulations adopted by the Attorney General pursuant to paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, that the consumer making the request is the consumer about whom the business has collected information or is a person authorized by the consumer to act on such consumers behalf.

Exemptions

(a)(1)The obligations imposed on businesses by this title shall not restrict a businesss ability to:

(A)Comply with federal, state, or local laws or comply with a court order or subpoena to provide information.

(B)Comply with a civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, or local authorities. Law enforcement agencies, including police and sheriffs departments, may direct a business pursuant to a law enforcement agency-approved investigation with an active case number not to delete a consumers personal information, and, upon receipt of that direction, a business shall not delete the personal information for 90 days in order to allow the law enforcement agency to obtain a court-issued subpoena, order, or warrant to obtain a consumers personal information. For good cause and only to the extent necessary for investigatory purposes, a law enforcement agency may direct a business not to delete the consumers personal information for additional 90-day periods. A business that has received direction from a law enforcement agency not to delete the personal information of a consumer who has requested deletion of the consumers personal information shall not use the consumers personal information for any purpose other than retaining it to produce to law enforcement in response to a court-issued subpoena, order, or warrant unless the consumers deletion request is subject to an exemption from deletion under this title.

(C)Cooperate with law enforcement agencies concerning conduct or activity that the business, service provider, or third party reasonably and in good faith believes may violate federal, state, or local law.

(D)(i)Cooperate with a government agency request for emergency access to a consumers personal information if a natural person is at risk or danger of death or serious physical injury provided that:

(I)The request is approved by a high-ranking agency officer for emergency access to a consumers personal information.

(II)The request is based on the agencys good faith determination that it has a lawful basis to access the information on a nonemergency basis.

(III)The agency agrees to petition a court for an appropriate order within three days and to destroy the information if that order is not granted.

(ii)For purposes of this subparagraph, a consumer accessing, procuring, or searching for services regarding contraception, pregnancy care, and perinatal care, including, but not limited to, abortion services, shall not constitute a natural person being at risk or danger of death or serious physical injury.

(E)Exercise or defend legal claims.

(F)Collect, use, retain, sell, share, or disclose consumers personal information that is deidentified or aggregate consumer information.

(G)Collect, sell, or share a consumers personal information if every aspect of that commercial conduct takes place wholly outside of California. For purposes of this title, commercial conduct takes place wholly outside of California if the business collected that information while the consumer was outside of California, no part of the sale of the consumers personal information occurred in California, and no personal information collected while the consumer was in California is sold. This paragraph shall not prohibit a business from storing, including on a device, personal information about a consumer when the consumer is in California and then collecting that personal information when the consumer and stored personal information is outside of California.

(2)(A)This subdivision shall not apply if the consumers personal information contains information related to accessing, procuring, or searching for services regarding contraception, pregnancy care, and perinatal care, including, but not limited to, abortion services.

(B)This paragraph does not alter the use of aggregated or deidentified personal information consistent with a business purpose as defined in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (7), or (8) of subdivision (f) of Section 1798.140, provided that the personal information is only retained in aggregated and deidentified form and is not sold or shared.

(C)This paragraph does not alter the duty of a business to preserve or retain evidence pursuant to California or federal law in an ongoing civil proceeding.

(b)The obligations imposed on businesses by Sections 1798.110, 1798.115, 1798.120, 1798.121, 1798.130, and 1798.135 shall not apply where compliance by the business with the title would violate an evidentiary privilege under California law and shall not prevent a business from providing the personal information of a consumer to a person covered by an evidentiary privilege under California law as part of a privileged communication.

(c)(1)This title shall not apply to any of the following:

(A)Medical information governed by the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 56) of Division 1) or protected health information that is collected by a covered entity or business associate governed by the privacy, security, and breach notification rules issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Parts 160 and 164 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, established pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-191) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (Public Law 111-5).

(B)A provider of health care governed by the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 56) of Division 1) or a covered entity governed by the privacy, security, and breach notification rules issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Parts 160 and 164 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, established pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-191), to the extent the provider or covered entity maintains patient information in the same manner as medical information or protected health information as described in subparagraph (A) of this section.

(C)Personal information collected as part of a clinical trial or other biomedical research study subject to, or conducted in accordance with, the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, also known as the Common Rule, pursuant to good clinical practice guidelines issued by the International Council for Harmonisation or pursuant to human subject protection requirements of the United States Food and Drug Administration, provided that the information is not sold or shared in a manner not permitted by this subparagraph, and, if it is inconsistent, that participants be informed of that use and provide consent.

(2)For purposes of this subdivision, the definitions of medical information and provider of health care in Section 56.05 shall apply and the definitions of business associate, covered entity, and protected health information in Section 160.103 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations shall apply.

(d)(1)This title shall not apply to an activity involving the collection, maintenance, disclosure, sale, communication, or use of any personal information bearing on a consumers creditworthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living by a consumer reporting agency, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 1681a of Title 15 of the United States Code, by a furnisher of information, as set forth in Section 1681s-2 of Title 15 of the United States Code, who provides information for use in a consumer report, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 1681a of Title 15 of the United States Code, and by a user of a consumer report as set forth in Section 1681b of Title 15 of the United States Code.

(2)Paragraph (1) shall apply only to the extent that such activity involving the collection, maintenance, disclosure, sale, communication, or use of such information by that agency, furnisher, or user is subject to regulation under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Section 1681 et seq., Title 15 of the United States Code and the information is not collected, maintained, used, communicated, disclosed, or sold except as authorized by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

(3)This subdivision shall not apply to Section 1798.150.

(e)This title shall not apply to personal information collected, processed, sold, or disclosed subject to the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Public Law 106-102), and implementing regulations, or the California Financial Information Privacy Act (Division 1.4 (commencing with Section 4050) of the Financial Code), or the federal Farm Credit Act of 1971 (as amended in 12 U.S.C. 2001-2279cc and implementing regulations, 12 C.F.R. 600, et seq.). This subdivision shall not apply to Section 1798.150.

(f)This title shall not apply to personal information collected, processed, sold, or disclosed pursuant to the Drivers Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 2721 et seq.). This subdivision shall not apply to Section 1798.150.

(g)(1)Section 1798.120 shall not apply to vehicle information or ownership information retained or shared between a new motor vehicle dealer, as defined in Section 426 of the Vehicle Code, and the vehicles manufacturer, as defined in Section 672 of the Vehicle Code, if the vehicle information or ownership information is shared for the purpose of effectuating, or in anticipation of effectuating, a vehicle repair covered by a vehicle warranty or a recall conducted pursuant to Sections 30118 to 30120, inclusive, of Title 49 of the United States Code, provided that the new motor vehicle dealer or vehicle manufacturer with which that vehicle information or ownership information is shared does not sell, share, or use that information for any other purpose.

(2)Section 1798.120 shall not apply to vessel information or ownership information retained or shared between a vessel dealer and the vessels manufacturer, as defined in Section 651 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, if the vessel information or ownership information is shared for the purpose of effectuating, or in anticipation of effectuating, a vessel repair covered by a vessel warranty or a recall conducted pursuant to Section 4310 of Title 46 of the United States Code, provided that the vessel dealer or vessel manufacturer with which that vessel information or ownership information is shared does not sell, share, or use that information for any other purpose.

(3)For purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Ownership information means the name or names of the registered owner or owners and the contact information for the owner or owners.

(B)Vehicle information means the vehicle information number, make, model, year, and odometer reading.

(C)Vessel dealer means a person who is engaged, wholly or in part, in the business of selling or offering for sale, buying or taking in trade for the purpose of resale, or exchanging, any vessel or vessels, as defined in Section 651 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, and receives or expects to receive money, profit, or any other thing of value.

(D)Vessel information means the hull identification number, model, year, month and year of production, and information describing any of the following equipment as shipped, transferred, or sold from the place of manufacture, including all attached parts and accessories:

(i)An inboard engine.

(ii)An outboard engine.

(iii)A stern drive unit.

(iv)An inflatable personal floatation device approved under Section 160.076 of Title 46 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

(h)Notwithstanding a businesss obligations to respond to and honor consumer rights requests pursuant to this title:

(1)A time period for a business to respond to a consumer for any verifiable consumer request may be extended by up to a total of 90 days where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests. The business shall inform the consumer of any such extension within 45 days of receipt of the request, together with the reasons for the delay.

(2)If the business does not take action on the request of the consumer, the business shall inform the consumer, without delay and at the latest within the time period permitted of response by this section, of the reasons for not taking action and any rights the consumer may have to appeal the decision to the business.

(3)If requests from a consumer are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character, a business may either charge a reasonable fee, taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested, or refuse to act on the request and notify the consumer of the reason for refusing the request. The business shall bear the burden of demonstrating that any verifiable consumer request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

(i)(1)A business that discloses personal information to a service provider or contractor in compliance with this title shall not be liable under this title if the service provider or contractor receiving the personal information uses it in violation of the restrictions set forth in the title, provided that, at the time of disclosing the personal information, the business does not have actual knowledge, or reason to believe, that the service provider or contractor intends to commit such a violation. A service provider or contractor shall likewise not be liable under this title for the obligations of a business for which it provides services as set forth in this title provided that the service provider or contractor shall be liable for its own violations of this title.

(2)A business that discloses personal information of a consumer, with the exception of consumers who have exercised their right to opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information, consumers who have limited the use or disclosure of their sensitive personal information, and minor consumers who have not opted in to the collection or sale of their personal information, to a third party pursuant to a written contract that requires the third party to provide the same level of protection of the consumers rights under this title as provided by the business shall not be liable under this title if the third party receiving the personal information uses it in violation of the restrictions set forth in this title provided that, at the time of disclosing the personal information, the business does not have actual knowledge, or reason to believe, that the third party intends to commit such a violation.

(j)This title shall not be construed to require a business, service provider, or contractor to:

(1)Reidentify or otherwise link information that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information.

(2)Retain any personal information about a consumer if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about the consumer would not be retained.

(3)Maintain information in identifiable, linkable, or associable form, or collect, obtain, retain, or access any data or technology, in order to be capable of linking or associating a verifiable consumer request with personal information.

(k)The rights afforded to consumers and the obligations imposed on the business in this title shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other natural persons. A verifiable consumer request for specific pieces of personal information pursuant to Section 1798.110, to delete a consumers personal information pursuant to Section 1798.105, or to correct inaccurate personal information pursuant to Section 1798.106, shall not extend to personal information about the consumer that belongs to, or the business maintains on behalf of, another natural person. A business may rely on representations made in a verifiable consumer request as to rights with respect to personal information and is under no legal requirement to seek out other persons that may have or claim to have rights to personal information, and a business is under no legal obligation under this title or any other provision of law to take any action under this title in the event of a dispute between or among persons claiming rights to personal information in the businesss possession.

(l)The rights afforded to consumers and the obligations imposed on any business under this title shall not apply to the extent that they infringe on the noncommercial activities of a person or entity described in subdivision (b) of Section 2 of Article I of the California Constitution.

(m)(1)This title shall not apply to any of the following:

(A)Personal information that is collected by a business about a natural person in the course of the natural person acting as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or independent contractor of, that business to the extent that the natural persons personal information is collected and used by the business solely within the context of the natural persons role or former role as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or an independent contractor of, that business.

(B)Personal information that is collected by a business that is emergency contact information of the natural person acting as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or independent contractor of, that business to the extent that the personal information is collected and used solely within the context of having an emergency contact on file.

(C)Personal information that is necessary for the business to retain to administer benefits for another natural person relating to the natural person acting as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or independent contractor of, that business to the extent that the personal information is collected and used solely within the context of administering those benefits.

(2)For purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Independent contractor means a natural person who provides any service to a business pursuant to a written contract.

(B)Director means a natural person designated in the articles of incorporation as director, or elected by the incorporators and natural persons designated, elected, or appointed by any other name or title to act as directors, and their successors.

(C)Medical staff member means a licensed physician and surgeon, dentist, or podiatrist, licensed pursuant to Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) of the Business and Professions Code and a clinical psychologist as defined in Section 1316.5 of the Health and Safety Code.

(D)Officer means a natural person elected or appointed by the board of directors to manage the daily operations of a corporation, including a chief executive officer, president, secretary, or treasurer.

(E)Owner means a natural person who meets one of the following criteria:

(i)Has ownership of, or the power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a business.

(ii)Has control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors or of individuals exercising similar functions.

(iii)Has the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management of a company.

(3)This subdivision shall not apply to subdivision (a) of Section 1798.100 or Section 1798.150.

(4)This subdivision shall become inoperative on January 1, 2023.

(n)(1)The obligations imposed on businesses by Sections 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, 1798.121, 1798.130, and 1798.135 shall not apply to personal information reflecting a written or verbal communication or a transaction between the business and the consumer, where the consumer is a natural person who acted or is acting as an employee, owner, director, officer, or independent contractor of a company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency and whose communications or transaction with the business occur solely within the context of the business conducting due diligence regarding, or providing or receiving a product or service to or from such company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency.

(2)For purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Independent contractor means a natural person who provides any service to a business pursuant to a written contract.

(B)Director means a natural person designated in the articles of incorporation as such or elected by the incorporators and natural persons designated, elected, or appointed by any other name or title to act as directors, and their successors.

(C)Officer means a natural person elected or appointed by the board of directors to manage the daily operations of a corporation, such as a chief executive officer, president, secretary, or treasurer.

(D)Owner means a natural person who meets one of the following:

(i)Has ownership of, or the power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a business.

(ii)Has control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors or of individuals exercising similar functions.

(iii)Has the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management of a company.

(3)This subdivision shall become inoperative on January 1, 2023.

(o)(1)Sections 1798.105 and 1798.120 shall not apply to a commercial credit reporting agencys collection, processing, sale, or disclosure of business controller information to the extent the commercial credit reporting agency uses the business controller information solely to identify the relationship of a consumer to a business that the consumer owns or contact the consumer only in the consumers role as the owner, director, officer, or management employee of the business.

(2)For the purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Business controller information means the name or names of the owner or owners, director, officer, or management employee of a business and the contact information, including a business title, for the owner or owners, director, officer, or management employee.

(B)Commercial credit reporting agency has the meaning set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 1785.42.

(C)Owner means a natural person that meets one of the following:

(i)Has ownership of, or the power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a business.

(ii)Has control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors or of individuals exercising similar functions.

(iii)Has the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management of a company.

(D)Director means a natural person designated in the articles of incorporation of a business as director, or elected by the incorporators and natural persons designated, elected, or appointed by any other name or title to act as directors, and their successors.

(E)Officer means a natural person elected or appointed by the board of directors of a business to manage the daily operations of a corporation, including a chief executive officer, president, secretary, or treasurer.

(F)Management employee means a natural person whose name and contact information is reported to or collected by a commercial credit reporting agency as the primary manager of a business and used solely within the context of the natural persons role as the primary manager of the business.

(p)The obligations imposed on businesses in Sections 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, and 1798.115 shall not apply to household data.

(q)(1)This title does not require a business to comply with a verifiable consumer request to delete a consumers personal information under Section 1798.105 to the extent the verifiable consumer request applies to a students grades, educational scores, or educational test results that the business holds on behalf of a local educational agency, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 49073.1 of the Education Code, at which the student is currently enrolled. If a business does not comply with a request pursuant to this section, it shall notify the consumer that it is acting pursuant to this exception.

(2)This title does not require, in response to a request pursuant to Section 1798.110, that a business disclose on educational standardized assessment or educational assessment or a consumers specific responses to the educational standardized assessment or educational assessment if consumer access, possession, or control would jeopardize the validity and reliability of that educational standardized assessment or educational assessment. If a business does not comply with a request pursuant to this section, it shall notify the consumer that it is acting pursuant to this exception.

(3)For purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Educational standardized assessment or educational assessment means a standardized or nonstandardized quiz, test, or other assessment used to evaluate students in or for entry to kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, schools, postsecondary institutions, vocational programs, and postgraduate programs that are accredited by an accrediting agency or organization recognized by the State of California or the United States Department of Education, as well as certification and licensure examinations used to determine competency and eligibility to receive certification or licensure from a government agency or government certification body.

(B)Jeopardize the validity and reliability of that educational standardized assessment or educational assessment means releasing information that would provide an advantage to the consumer who has submitted a verifiable consumer request or to another natural person.

(r)Sections 1798.105 and 1798.120 shall not apply to a businesss use, disclosure, or sale of particular pieces of a consumers personal information if the consumer has consented to the businesss use, disclosure, or sale of that information to produce a physical item, including a school yearbook containing the consumers photograph if:

(1)The business has incurred significant expense in reliance on the consumers consent.

(2)Compliance with the consumers request to opt out of the sale of the consumers personal information or to delete the consumers personal information would not be commercially reasonable.

(3)The business complies with the consumers request as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so.

Regulations

(a)On or before July 1, 2020, the Attorney General shall solicit broad public participation and adopt regulations to further the purposes of this title, including, but not limited to, the following areas:

(1)Updating or adding categories of personal information to those enumerated in subdivision (c) of Section 1798.130 and subdivision (x) (y) of Section 1798.140, and updating or adding categories of sensitive personal information to those enumerated in subdivision (ag) (ai) of Section 1798.140 in order to address changes in technology, data collection practices, obstacles to implementation, and privacy concerns.

(2)Updating as needed the definitions of deidentified and unique identifier to address changes in technology, data collection, obstacles to implementation, and privacy concerns, and adding, modifying, or deleting categories to the definition of designated methods for submitting requests to facilitate a consumers ability to obtain information from a business pursuant to Section 1798.130. The authority to update the definition of deidentified shall not apply to deidentification standards set forth in Section 164.514 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, where such information previously was protected health information as defined in Section 160.103 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

(3)Establishing any exceptions necessary to comply with state or federal law, including, but not limited to, those relating to trade secrets and intellectual property rights, within one year of passage of this title and as needed thereafter, with the intention that trade secrets should not be disclosed in response to a verifiable consumer request.

(4)Establishing rules and procedures for the following:

(A)To facilitate and govern the submission of a request by a consumer to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information pursuant to Section 1798.120 and to limit the use of a consumers sensitive personal information pursuant to Section 1798.121 to ensure that consumers have the ability to exercise their choices without undue burden and to prevent business from engaging in deceptive or harassing conduct, including in retaliation against consumers for exercising their rights, while allowing businesses to inform consumers of the consequences of their decision to opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information or to limit the use of their sensitive personal information.

(B)To govern business compliance with a consumers opt-out request.

(C)For the development and use of a recognizable and uniform opt-out logo or button by all businesses to promote consumer awareness of the opportunity to opt out of the sale of personal information.

(5)Adjusting the monetary thresholds, in January of every odd-numbered year to reflect any increase in the Consumer Price Index, in: subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (e) of Section 1798.140; subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.150; subdivision (a) of Section 1798.155; Section 1798.199.25; and subdivision (a) of Section 1798.199.90.

(6)Establishing rules, procedures, and any exceptions necessary to ensure that the notices and information that businesses are required to provide pursuant to this title are provided in a manner that may be easily understood by the average consumer, are accessible to consumers with disabilities, and are available in the language primarily used to interact with the consumer, including establishing rules and guidelines regarding financial incentives within one year of passage of this title and as needed thereafter.

(7)Establishing rules and procedures to further the purposes of Sections 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, and 1798.115 and to facilitate a consumers or the consumers authorized agents ability to delete personal information, correct inaccurate personal information pursuant to Section 1798.106, or obtain information pursuant to Section 1798.130, with the goal of minimizing the administrative burden on consumers, taking into account available technology, security concerns, and the burden on the business, to govern a businesss determination that a request for information received from a consumer is a verifiable consumer request, including treating a request submitted through a password-protected account maintained by the consumer with the business while the consumer is logged into the account as a verifiable consumer request and providing a mechanism for a consumer who does not maintain an account with the business to request information through the businesss authentication of the consumers identity, within one year of passage of this title and as needed thereafter.

(8)Establishing how often, and under what circumstances, a consumer may request a correction pursuant to Section 1798.106, including standards governing the following:

(A)How a business responds to a request for correction, including exceptions for requests to which a response is impossible or would involve disproportionate effort, and requests for correction of accurate information.

(B)How concerns regarding the accuracy of the information may be resolved.

(C)The steps a business may take to prevent fraud.

(D)If a business rejects a request to correct personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumers health, the right of a consumer to provide a written addendum to the business with respect to any item or statement regarding any such personal information that the consumer believes to be incomplete or incorrect. The addendum shall be limited to 250 words per alleged incomplete or incorrect item and shall clearly indicate in writing that the consumer requests the addendum to be made a part of the consumers record.

(9)Establishing the standard to govern a businesss determination, pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.130, that providing information beyond the 12-month period in a response to a verifiable consumer request is impossible or would involve a disproportionate effort.

(10)Issuing regulations further defining and adding to the business purposes, including other notified purposes, for which businesses, service providers, and contractors may use consumers personal information consistent with consumers expectations, and further defining the business purposes for which service providers and contractors may combine consumers personal information obtained from different sources, except as provided for in paragraph (6) of subdivision (f) of Section 1798.140.

(11)Issuing regulations identifying those business purposes, including other notified purposes, for which service providers and contractors may use consumers personal information received pursuant to a written contract with a business, for the service providers or contractors own business purposes, with the goal of maximizing consumer privacy.

(12)Issuing regulations to further define intentionally interacts, with the goal of maximizing consumer privacy.

(13)Issuing regulations to further define precise geolocation, including if the size defined is not sufficient to protect consumer privacy in sparsely populated areas or when the personal information is used for normal operational purposes, including billing.

(14)Issuing regulations to define the term specific pieces of information obtained from the consumer with the goal of maximizing a consumers right to access relevant personal information while minimizing the delivery of information to a consumer that would not be useful to the consumer, including system log information and other technical data. For delivery of the most sensitive personal information, the regulations may require a higher standard of authentication provided that the agency shall monitor the impact of the higher standard on the right of consumers to obtain their personal information to ensure that the requirements of verification do not result in the unreasonable denial of verifiable consumer requests.

(15)Issuing regulations requiring businesses whose processing of consumers personal information presents significant risk to consumers privacy or security, to:

(A)Perform a cybersecurity audit on an annual basis, including defining the scope of the audit and establishing a process to ensure that audits are thorough and independent. The factors to be considered in determining when processing may result in significant risk to the security of personal information shall include the size and complexity of the business and the nature and scope of processing activities.

(B)Submit to the California Privacy Protection Agency on a regular basis a risk assessment with respect to their processing of personal information, including whether the processing involves sensitive personal information, and identifying and weighing the benefits resulting from the processing to the business, the consumer, other stakeholders, and the public, against the potential risks to the rights of the consumer associated with that processing, with the goal of restricting or prohibiting the processing if the risks to privacy of the consumer outweigh the benefits resulting from processing to the consumer, the business, other stakeholders, and the public. Nothing in this section shall require a business to divulge trade secrets.

(16)Issuing regulations governing access and opt-out rights with respect to businesses use of automated decisionmaking technology, including profiling and requiring businesses response to access requests to include meaningful information about the logic involved in those decisionmaking processes, as well as a description of the likely outcome of the process with respect to the consumer.

(17)Issuing regulations to further define a law enforcement agency-approved investigation for purposes of the exception in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.145.

(18)Issuing regulations to define the scope and process for the exercise of the agencys audit authority, to establish criteria for selection of persons to audit, and to protect consumers personal information from disclosure to an auditor in the absence of a court order, warrant, or subpoena.

(19)(A)Issuing regulations to define the requirements and technical specifications for an opt-out preference signal sent by a platform, technology, or mechanism, to indicate a consumers intent to opt out of the sale or sharing of the consumers personal information and to limit the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information. The requirements and specifications for the opt-out preference signal should be updated from time to time to reflect the means by which consumers interact with businesses, and should:

(i)Ensure that the manufacturer of a platform or browser or device that sends the opt-out preference signal cannot unfairly disadvantage another business.

(ii)Ensure that the opt-out preference signal is consumer-friendly, clearly described, and easy to use by an average consumer and does not require that the consumer provide additional information beyond what is necessary.

(iii)Clearly represent a consumers intent and be free of defaults constraining or presupposing that intent.

(iv)Ensure that the opt-out preference signal does not conflict with other commonly used privacy settings or tools that consumers may employ.

(v)Provide a mechanism for the consumer to selectively consent to a businesss sale of the consumers personal information, or the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information, without affecting the consumers preferences with respect to other businesses or disabling the opt-out preference signal globally.

(vi)State that in the case of a page or setting view that the consumer accesses to set the opt-out preference signal, the consumer should see up to three choices, including:

(I)Global opt out from sale and sharing of personal information, including a direction to limit the use of sensitive personal information.

(II)Choice to Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information.

(III)Choice titled Do Not Sell/Do Not Share My Personal Information for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising.

(B)Issuing regulations to establish technical specifications for an opt-out preference signal that allows the consumer, or the consumers parent or guardian, to specify that the consumer is less than 13 years of age or at least 13 years of age and less than 16 years of age.

(C)Issuing regulations, with the goal of strengthening consumer privacy while considering the legitimate operational interests of businesses, to govern the use or disclosure of a consumers sensitive personal information, notwithstanding the consumers direction to limit the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information, including:

(i)Determining any additional purposes for which a business may use or disclose a consumers sensitive personal information.

(ii)Determining the scope of activities permitted under paragraph (8) of subdivision (f) of Section 1798.140, as authorized by subdivision (a) of Section 1798.121, to ensure that the activities do not involve health-related research.

(iii)Ensuring the functionality of the businesss operations.

(iv)Ensuring that the exemption in subdivision (d) of Section 1798.121 for sensitive personal information applies to information that is collected or processed incidentally, or without the purpose of inferring characteristics about a consumer, while ensuring that businesses do not use the exemption for the purpose of evading consumers rights to limit the use and disclosure of their sensitive personal information under Section 1798.121.

(20)Issuing regulations to govern how a business that has elected to comply with subdivision (b) of Section 1798.135 responds to the opt-out preference signal and provides consumers with the opportunity subsequently to consent to the sale or sharing of their personal information or the use and disclosure of their sensitive personal information for purposes in addition to those authorized by subdivision (a) of Section 1798.121. The regulations should:

(A)Strive to promote competition and consumer choice and be technology neutral.

(B)Ensure that the business does not respond to an opt-out preference signal by:

(i)Intentionally degrading the functionality of the consumer experience.

(ii)Charging the consumer a fee in response to the consumers opt-out preferences.

(iii)Making any products or services not function properly or fully for the consumer, as compared to consumers who do not use the opt-out preference signal.

(iv)Attempting to coerce the consumer to opt in to the sale or sharing of the consumers personal information, or the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information, by stating or implying that the use of the opt-out preference signal will adversely affect the consumer as compared to consumers who do not use the opt-out preference signal, including stating or implying that the consumer will not be able to use the businesss products or services or that those products or services may not function properly or fully.

(v)Displaying any notification or pop-up in response to the consumers opt-out preference signal.

(C)Ensure that any link to a web page or its supporting content that allows the consumer to consent to opt in:

(i)Is not part of a popup, notice, banner, or other intrusive design that obscures any part of the web page the consumer intended to visit from full view or that interferes with or impedes in any way the consumers experience visiting or browsing the web page or website the consumer intended to visit.

(ii)Does not require or imply that the consumer must click the link to receive full functionality of any products or services, including the website.

(iii)Does not make use of any dark patterns.

(iv)Applies only to the business with which the consumer intends to interact.

(D)Strive to curb coercive or deceptive practices in response to an opt-out preference signal but should not unduly restrict businesses that are trying in good faith to comply with Section 1798.135.

(21)Review existing Insurance Code provisions and regulations relating to consumer privacy, except those relating to insurance rates or pricing, to determine whether any provisions of the Insurance Code provide greater protection to consumers than the provisions of this title. Upon completing its review, the agency shall adopt a regulation that applies only the more protective provisions of this title to insurance companies. For the purpose of clarity, the Insurance Commissioner shall have jurisdiction over insurance rates and pricing.

(22)Harmonizing the regulations governing opt-out mechanisms, notices to consumers, and other operational mechanisms in this title to promote clarity and the functionality of this title for consumers.

(b)The Attorney General may adopt additional regulations as necessary to further the purposes of this title.

(c)The Attorney General shall not bring an enforcement action under this title until six months after the publication of the final regulations issued pursuant to this section or July 1, 2020, whichever is sooner.

(d)Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the timeline for adopting final regulations required by the act adding this subdivision shall be July 1, 2022. Beginning the later of July 1, 2021, or six months after the agency provides notice to the Attorney General that it is prepared to begin rulemaking under this title, the authority assigned to the Attorney General to adopt regulations under this section shall be exercised by the California Privacy Protection Agency. Notwithstanding any other law, civil and administrative enforcement of the provisions of law added or amended by this act shall not commence until July 1, 2023, and shall only apply to violations occurring on or after that date. Enforcement of provisions of law contained in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 amended by this act shall remain in effect and shall be enforceable until the same provisions of this act become enforceable.

The agency shall perform the following functions:

(a)Administer, implement, and enforce through administrative actions this title.

(b)On and after the later of July 1, 2021, or within six months of the agency providing the Attorney General with notice that it is prepared to assume rulemaking responsibilities under this title, adopt, amend, and rescind regulations pursuant to Section 1798.185 to carry out the purposes and provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, including regulations specifying recordkeeping requirements for businesses to ensure compliance with this title.

(c)Through the implementation of this title, protect the fundamental privacy rights of natural persons with respect to the use of their personal information.

(d)Promote public awareness and understanding of the risks, rules, responsibilities, safeguards, and rights in relation to the collection, use, sale, and disclosure of personal information, including the rights of minors with respect to their own information, and provide a public report summarizing the risk assessments filed with the agency pursuant to paragraph (15) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185 while ensuring that data security is not compromised.

(e)Provide guidance to consumers regarding their rights under this title.

(f)Provide guidance to businesses regarding their duties and responsibilities under this title and appoint a Chief Privacy Auditor to conduct audits of businesses to ensure compliance with this title pursuant to regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (18) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185.

(g)Provide technical assistance and advice to the Legislature, upon request, with respect to privacy-related legislation.

(h)Monitor relevant developments relating to the protection of personal information and, in particular, the development of information and communication technologies and commercial practices.

(i)Cooperate with other agencies with jurisdiction over privacy laws and with data processing authorities in California, other states, territories, and countries to ensure consistent application of privacy protections.

(j)Establish a mechanism pursuant to which persons doing business in California that do not meet the definition of business set forth in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subdivision (e) of Section 1798.140 may voluntarily certify that they are in compliance with this title, as set forth in paragraph (4) of subdivision (e) of Section 1798.140, and make a list of those entities available to the public.

(k)Solicit, review, and approve applications for grants to the extent funds are available pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1798.160.

(l)Perform all other acts necessary or appropriate in the exercise of its power, authority, and jurisdiction and seek to balance the goals of strengthening consumer privacy while giving attention to the impact on businesses.

(a)A Except as provided in subdivision (c), a developer shall not use the personal information of a consumer described by subdivision (c) of Section 1798.120 to train or retrain fine-tune an artificial intelligence system or service unless the consumer or the consumers parent or guardian has affirmatively authorized, in the same manner as described in subdivision (c) of Section 1798.120, that use of the consumers personal information.

(b)If affirmative authorization is given pursuant to this section, a developer shall deidentify and aggregate the personal information subject to the authorization before using the personal information to train or retrain fine-tune an artificial intelligence system or service.

(a)A person or business shall not collect, use, disclose, or retain the personal information of a person who is physically located at, or within a precise geolocation of, a family planning center, except as specified in subdivision (c).

(b)For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: section:

(1)Business means has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 1798.140.

(2)Collect means has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 1798.140.

(3)Family planning center means a business categorized as a family planning center by the North American Industry Classification System adopted by the United States Census Bureau, including, but not limited to, a clinic or center that provides reproductive health care services as defined in Section 1798.300 of the Civil Code. 1798.300.

(4)Personal information has the same definition as that term is meaning as defined in subdivision (x) of Section 1798.140, except as applied to all persons and not limited to consumers and households, as those terms are defined in subdivisions (j) and (s), respectively, of that section.

(5)Precise geolocation means a geographic area that is equal to or less than the area of a circle with a radius of 1,850 feet as derived from a device that is used or intended to be used to locate a person.

(6)Sell means has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (af) of Section 1798.140.

(7)Share means has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (aj) of Section 1798.140.

(c)A person or business shall not collect, use, disclose, or retain the personal information of a person who is physically located at, or within a precise geolocation of, a family planning center, except only as necessary to perform the services or provide the goods requested by the person. A person or business shall not sell or share this personal information.

(d)(1)An aggrieved person or entity, including a family planning center, may institute and prosecute a civil action against any person or business who violates this section for injunctive and monetary relief and attorneys fees within three years of discovery of the violation.

(2)If the court finds for the petitioner in an action authorized by paragraph (1), recovery shall be in the amount of three times the amount of actual damages and any other expenses, costs, or reasonable attorneys fees incurred in connection with the litigation.

(e)This section does not apply to a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or contractor, as those terms are defined in Section 56.05.

Consumers Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

(a)A consumer shall have the right, at any time, to direct a business that collects sensitive personal information about the consumer to limit its use of the consumers sensitive personal information to that use which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those goods or services, to perform the services set forth in paragraphs (2), (4), (5), and (8) of subdivision (f) of Section 1798.140, and as authorized by regulations adopted pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (19) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185. A business that uses or discloses a consumers sensitive personal information for purposes other than those specified in this subdivision shall provide notice to consumers, pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1798.135, that this information may be used, or disclosed to a service provider or contractor, for additional, specified purposes and that consumers have the right to limit the use or disclosure of their sensitive personal information.

(b)A business that has received direction from a consumer not to use or disclose the consumers sensitive personal information, except as authorized by subdivision (a), shall be prohibited, pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (c) of Section 1798.135, from using or disclosing the consumers sensitive personal information for any other purpose after its receipt of the consumers direction unless the consumer subsequently provides consent for the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information for additional purposes.

(c)A service provider or contractor that assists a business in performing the purposes authorized by subdivision (a) may not use the sensitive personal information after it has received instructions from the business and to the extent it has actual knowledge that the personal information is sensitive personal information for any other purpose. A service provider or contractor is only required to limit its use of sensitive personal information received pursuant to a written contract with the business in response to instructions from the business and only with respect to its relationship with that business.

(d)Sensitive personal information that is collected or processed without the purpose of inferring characteristics about a consumer is not subject to this section, as further defined in regulations adopted pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (19) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, and shall be treated as personal information for purposes of all other sections of this act, including Section 1798.100.

Notice, Disclosure, Correction, and Deletion Requirements

(a)In order to comply with Sections 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, and 1798.125, a business shall, in a form that is reasonably accessible to consumers:

(1)(A)Make available to consumers two or more designated methods for submitting requests for information required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115, or requests for deletion or correction pursuant to Sections 1798.105 and 1798.106, respectively, including, at a minimum, a toll-free telephone number. A business that operates exclusively online and has a direct relationship with a consumer from whom it collects personal information shall only be required to provide an email address for submitting requests for information required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115, or for requests for deletion or correction pursuant to Sections 1798.105 and 1798.106, respectively.

(B)If the business maintains an internet website, make the internet website available to consumers to submit requests for information required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115, or requests for deletion or correction pursuant to Sections 1798.105 and 1798.106, respectively.

(2)(A)Disclose and deliver the required information to a consumer free of charge, correct inaccurate personal information, or delete a consumers personal information, based on the consumers request, within 45 days of receiving a verifiable consumer request from the consumer. The business shall promptly take steps to determine whether the request is a verifiable consumer request, but this shall not extend the businesss duty to disclose and deliver the information, to correct inaccurate personal information, or to delete personal information within 45 days of receipt of the consumers request. The time period to provide the required information, to correct inaccurate personal information, or to delete personal information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary, provided the consumer is provided notice of the extension within the first 45-day period. The disclosure of the required information shall be made in writing and delivered through the consumers account with the business, if the consumer maintains an account with the business, or by mail or electronically at the consumers option if the consumer does not maintain an account with the business, in a readily useable format that allows the consumer to transmit this information from one entity to another entity without hindrance. The business may require authentication of the consumer that is reasonable in light of the nature of the personal information requested, but shall not require the consumer to create an account with the business in order to make a verifiable consumer request provided that if the consumer, has an account with the business, the business may require the consumer to use that account to submit a verifiable consumer request.

(B)The disclosure of the required information shall cover the 12-month period preceding the business receipt of the verifiable consumer request provided that, upon the adoption of a regulation pursuant to paragraph (9) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, a consumer may request that the business disclose the required information beyond the 12-month period, and the business shall be required to provide that information unless doing so proves impossible or would involve a disproportionate effort. A consumers right to request required information beyond the 12-month period, and a businesss obligation to provide that information, shall only apply to personal information collected on or after January 1, 2022. Nothing in this subparagraph shall require a business to keep personal information for any length of time.

(3)(A)A business that receives a verifiable consumer request pursuant to Section 1798.110 or 1798.115 shall disclose any personal information it has collected about a consumer, directly or indirectly, including through or by a service provider or contractor, to the consumer. A service provider or contractor shall not be required to comply with a verifiable consumer request received directly from a consumer or a consumers authorized agent, pursuant to Section 1798.110 or 1798.115, to the extent that the service provider or contractor has collected personal information about the consumer in its role as a service provider or contractor. A service provider or contractor shall provide assistance to a business with which it has a contractual relationship with respect to the business response to a verifiable consumer request, including, but not limited to, by providing to the business the consumers personal information in the service provider providers or contractors possession, which the service provider or contractor obtained as a result of providing services to the business, and by correcting inaccurate information or by enabling the business to do the same. A service provider or contractor that collects personal information pursuant to a written contract with a business shall be required to assist the business through appropriate technical and organizational measures in complying with the requirements of subdivisions (d) to (f), inclusive, of Section 1798.100, taking into account the nature of the processing.

(B)For purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 1798.110:

(i)To identify the consumer, associate the information provided by the consumer in the verifiable consumer request to any personal information previously collected by the business about the consumer.

(ii)Identify by category or categories the personal information collected about the consumer for the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information collected; the categories of sources from which the consumers personal information was collected; the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing the consumers personal information; and the categories of third parties to whom the business discloses the consumers personal information.

(iii)Provide the specific pieces of personal information obtained from the consumer in a format that is easily understandable to the average consumer, and to the extent technically feasible, in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format that may also be transmitted to another entity at the consumers request without hindrance. Specific pieces of information do not include data generated to help ensure security and integrity or as prescribed by regulation. Personal information is not considered to have been disclosed by a business when a consumer instructs a business to transfer the consumers personal information from one business to another in the context of switching services.

(4)For purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 1798.115:

(A)Identify the consumer and associate the information provided by the consumer in the verifiable consumer request to any personal information previously collected by the business about the consumer.

(B)Identify by category or categories the personal information of the consumer that the business sold or shared during the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information, and provide the categories of third parties to whom the consumers personal information was sold or shared during the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information sold or shared. The business shall disclose the information in a list that is separate from a list generated for the purposes of subparagraph (C).

(C)Identify by category or categories the personal information of the consumer that the business disclosed for a business purpose during the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information, and provide the categories of persons to whom the consumers personal information was disclosed for a business purpose during the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information disclosed. The business shall disclose the information in a list that is separate from a list generated for the purposes of subparagraph (B).

(5)Disclose the following information in its online privacy policy or policies if the business has an online privacy policy or policies and in any California-specific description of consumers privacy rights, or if the business does not maintain those policies, on its internet website, and update that information at least once every 12 months:

(A)A description of a consumers rights pursuant to Sections 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, and 1798.125 and two or more designated methods for submitting requests, except as provided in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a).

(B)For purposes of subdivision (c) of Section 1798.110:

(i)A list of the categories of personal information it has collected about consumers in the preceding 12 months by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describe the personal information collected.

(ii)The categories of sources from which consumers personal information is collected.

(iii)The business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing consumers personal information.

(iv)The categories of third parties to whom the business discloses consumers personal information.

(C)For purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 1798.115, two separate lists:

(i)A list of the categories of personal information it has sold or shared about consumers in the preceding 12 months by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describe the personal information sold or shared, or if the business has not sold or shared consumers personal information in the preceding 12 months, the business shall prominently disclose that fact in its privacy policy.

(ii)A list of the categories of personal information it has disclosed about consumers for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months by reference to the enumerated category in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information disclosed, or if the business has not disclosed consumers personal information for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months, the business shall disclose that fact.

(6)Ensure that all individuals responsible for handling consumer inquiries about the business privacy practices or the business compliance with this title are informed of all requirements in Sections 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, 1798.125, and this section, and how to direct consumers to exercise their rights under those sections.

(7)Use any personal information collected from the consumer in connection with the business verification of the consumers request solely for the purposes of verification and shall not further disclose the personal information, retain it longer than necessary for purposes of verification, or use it for unrelated purposes.

(b)A business is not obligated to provide the information required by Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115 to the same consumer more than twice in a 12-month period.

(c)The categories of personal information required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 1798.100, 1798.110, and 1798.115 shall follow the definitions of personal information and sensitive personal information in Section 1798.140 by describing the categories of personal information using the specific terms set forth in subparagraphs (A) to (K), inclusive, of paragraph (1) of subdivision (x) of Section 1798.140 and by describing the categories of sensitive personal information using the specific terms set forth in paragraphs (1) to (9), inclusive, of subdivision (ag) (ah) of Section 1798.140.

Definitions

For purposes of this title:

(a)Advertising and marketing means a communication by a business or a person acting on the business behalf in any medium intended to induce a consumer to obtain goods, services, or employment.

(b)Aggregate consumer information means information that relates to a group or category of consumers, from which individual consumer identities have been removed, that is not linked or reasonably linkable to any consumer or household, including via a device. Aggregate consumer information does not mean one or more individual consumer records that have been deidentified.

(c)Artificial intelligence means an engineered or machine-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and that can, for explicit or implicit objectives, infer from the input it receives how to generate outputs that can influence physical or virtual environments.

(d)Biometric information means an individuals physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics, including information pertaining to an individuals deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), that is used or is intended to be used singly or in combination with each other or with other identifying data, to establish individual identity. Biometric information includes, but is not limited to, imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, face, hand, palm, vein patterns, and voice recordings, from which an identifier template, such as a faceprint, a minutiae template, or a voiceprint, can be extracted, and keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information.

(e)Business means:

(1)A sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, association, or other legal entity that is organized or operated for the profit or financial benefit of its shareholders or other owners, that collects consumers personal information, or on the behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers personal information, that does business in the State of California, state, and that satisfies one or more of the following thresholds:

(A)As of January 1 of the calendar year, had annual gross revenues in excess of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) in the preceding calendar year, as adjusted pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185.

(B)Alone or in combination, annually buys, sells, or shares the personal information of 100,000 or more consumers or households.

(C)Derives 50 percent or more of its annual revenues from selling or sharing consumers personal information.

(2)Any entity that controls or is controlled by a business, as defined in paragraph (1), and that shares common branding with the business and with whom the business shares consumers personal information. Control or controlled means ownership of, or the power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a business; control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors, or of individuals exercising similar functions; or the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management of a company. Common branding means a shared name, servicemark, or trademark that the average consumer would understand that two or more entities are commonly owned.

(3)A joint venture or partnership composed of businesses in which each business has at least a 40 percent interest. For purposes of this title, the joint venture or partnership and each business that composes the joint venture or partnership shall separately be considered a single business, except that personal information in the possession of each business and disclosed to the joint venture or partnership shall not be shared with the other business.

(4)A person that does business in California, that is not covered by paragraph (1), (2), or (3), and that voluntarily certifies to the California Privacy Protection Agency that it is in compliance with, and agrees to be bound by, this title.

(f)Business purpose means the use of personal information for the business operational purposes, or other notified purposes, or for the service provider providers or contractors operational purposes, as defined by regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (11) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, provided that the use of personal information shall be reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the purpose for which the personal information was collected or processed or for another purpose that is compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected. Business purposes are:

(1)Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards.

(2)Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumers personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes.

(3)Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

(4)Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, nonpersonalized advertising shown as part of a consumers current interaction with the business, provided that the consumers personal information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about the consumer or otherwise alter the consumers experience outside the current interaction with the business.

(5)Performing services on behalf of the business, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on behalf of the business.

(6)Providing advertising and marketing services, except for cross-context behavioral advertising, to the consumer provided that, for the purpose of advertising and marketing, a service provider or contractor shall not combine the personal information of opted-out consumers that the service provider or contractor receives from, or on behalf of, the business with personal information that the service provider or contractor receives from, or on behalf of, another person or persons or collects from its own interaction with consumers.

(7)Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration.

(8)Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business.

(g)Collects, collected, or collection means buying, renting, gathering, obtaining, receiving, or accessing any personal information pertaining to a consumer by any means. This includes receiving information from the consumer, either actively or passively, or by observing the consumers behavior.

(h)Commercial purposes means to advance a persons commercial or economic interests, such as by inducing another person to buy, rent, lease, join, subscribe to, provide, or exchange products, goods, property, information, or services, or enabling or effecting, directly or indirectly, a commercial transaction.

(i)Consent means any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the consumers wishes by which the consumer, or the consumers legal guardian, a person who has power of attorney, or a person acting as a conservator for the consumer, including by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal information relating to the consumer for a narrowly defined particular purpose. Acceptance of a general or broad terms of use, or similar document, that contains descriptions of personal information processing along with other, unrelated information, does not constitute consent. Hovering over, muting, pausing, or closing a given piece of content does not constitute consent. Likewise, agreement obtained through use of dark patterns does not constitute consent.

(j)Consumer means a natural person who is a California resident, as defined in Section 17014 of Title 18 of the California Code of Regulations, as that section read on September 1, 2017, however identified, including by any unique identifier.

(k)(1)Contractor means a person to whom the business makes available a consumers personal information for a business purpose, pursuant to a written contract with the business, provided that the contract:

(A)Prohibits the contractor from:

(i)Selling or sharing the personal information.

(ii)Retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for any purpose other than for the business purposes specified in the contract, including retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for a commercial purpose other than the business purposes specified in the contract, or as otherwise permitted by this title.

(iii)Retaining, using, or disclosing the information outside of the direct business relationship between the contractor and the business.

(iv)Combining the personal information that the contractor receives pursuant to a written contract with the business with personal information that it receives from or on behalf of another person or persons, or collects from its own interaction with the consumer, provided that the contractor may combine personal information to perform any business purpose as defined in regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (10) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, except as provided for in paragraph (6) of subdivision (f) and in regulations adopted by the California Privacy Protection Agency.

(B)Includes a certification made by the contractor that the contractor understands the restrictions in subparagraph (A) and will comply with them.

(C)Permits, subject to agreement with the contractor, the business to monitor the contractors compliance with the contract through measures, including, but not limited to, ongoing manual reviews and automated scans and regular assessments, audits, or other technical and operational testing at least once every 12 months.

(2)If a contractor engages any other person to assist it in processing personal information for a business purpose on behalf of the business, or if any other person engaged by the contractor engages another person to assist in processing personal information for that business purpose, it shall notify the business of that engagement, and the engagement shall be pursuant to a written contract binding the other person to observe all the requirements set forth in paragraph (1).

(l)Cross-context behavioral advertising means the targeting of advertising to a consumer based on the consumers personal information obtained from the consumers activity across businesses, distinctly-branded websites, applications, or services, other than the business, distinctly-branded website, application, or service with which the consumer intentionally interacts.

(m)Dark pattern means a user interface designed or manipulated with the substantial effect of subverting or impairing user autonomy, decisionmaking, or choice, as further defined by regulation.

(n)Deidentified means information that cannot reasonably be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular consumer provided that the business that possesses the information:

(1)Takes reasonable measures to ensure that the information cannot be associated with a consumer or household.

(2)Publicly commits to maintain and use the information in deidentified form and not to attempt to reidentify the information, except that the business may attempt to reidentify the information solely for the purpose of determining whether its deidentification processes satisfy the requirements of this subdivision.

(3)Contractually obligates any recipients of the information to comply with all provisions of this subdivision.

(o)Designated methods for submitting requests means a mailing address, email address, internet web page, internet web portal, toll-free telephone number, or other applicable contact information, whereby consumers may submit a request or direction under this title, and any new, consumer-friendly means of contacting a business, as approved by the Attorney General pursuant to Section 1798.185.

(p)Developer means a covered qualified business that designs, codes, or otherwise produces an automated decision tool, artificial intelligence system or service, or substantially modifies an existing artificial intelligence system or service for the intended purpose of making, or being a controlling factor in making, consequential decisions, whether for its own use or for use by a third party. service, by training or retraining the artificial intelligence system or service on personal information.

(q)Device means any physical object that is capable of connecting to the Internet, internet, directly or indirectly, or to another device.

(r)Homepage means the introductory page of an internet website and any internet web page where personal information is collected. In the case of an online service, such as a mobile application, homepage means the applications platform page or download page, a link within the application, such as from the application configuration, About, Information, or settings page, and any other location that allows consumers to review the notices required by this title, including, but not limited to, before downloading the application.

(s)Household means a group, however identified, of consumers who cohabitate with one another at the same residential address and share use of common devices or services.

(t)Infer or inference means the derivation of information, data, assumptions, or conclusions from facts, evidence, or another source of information or data.

(u)Intentionally interacts means when the consumer intends to interact with a person, or disclose personal information to a person, via one or more deliberate interactions, including visiting the persons website or purchasing a good or service from the person. Hovering over, muting, pausing, or closing a given piece of content does not constitute a consumers intent to interact with a person.

(v)Nonpersonalized advertising means advertising and marketing that is based solely on a consumers personal information derived from the consumers current interaction with the business with the exception of the consumers precise geolocation.

(w)Person means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, and any other organization or group of persons acting in concert.

(x)(1)Personal information means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. Personal information includes, but is not limited to, the following if it identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could be reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:

(A)Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, drivers license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

(B)Any personal information described in subdivision (e) of Section 1798.80.

(C)Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law.

(D)Commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

(E)Biometric information.

(F)Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumers interaction with an internet website application, or advertisement.

(G)Geolocation data.

(H)Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

(I)Professional or employment-related information.

(J)Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g; 34 C.F.R. Part 99).

(K)Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in this subdivision to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumers preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

(L)Sensitive personal information.

(2)Personal information does not include publicly available information or lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern. For purposes of this paragraph, publicly available means: information that is lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records, or information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public by the consumer or from widely distributed media; or information made available by a person to whom the consumer has disclosed the information if the consumer has not restricted the information to a specific audience. Publicly available does not mean biometric information collected by a business about a consumer without the consumers knowledge.

(3)Personal information does not include consumer information that is deidentified or aggregate consumer information.

(y)Precise geolocation means any data that is derived from a device and that is used or intended to be used to locate a consumer within a geographic area that is equal to or less than the area of a circle with a radius of 1,850 feet, except as prescribed by regulations.

(z)Probabilistic identifier means the identification of a consumer or a consumers device to a degree of certainty of more probable than not based on any categories of personal information included in, or similar to, the categories enumerated in the definition of personal information.

(aa)Processing means any operation or set of operations that are performed on personal information or on sets of personal information, whether or not by automated means.

(ab)Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal information, as further defined by regulations pursuant to paragraph (16) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person and in particular to analyze or predict aspects concerning that natural persons performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements.

(ac)Pseudonymize or Pseudonymizationpseudonymization means the processing of personal information in a manner that renders the personal information no longer attributable to a specific consumer without the use of additional information, provided that the additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal information is not attributed to an identified or identifiable consumer.

(ae)Research means scientific analysis, systematic study, and observation, including basic research or applied research that is designed to develop or contribute to public or scientific knowledge and that adheres or otherwise conforms to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, including, but not limited to, studies conducted in the public interest in the area of public health. Research with personal information that may have been collected from a consumer in the course of the consumers interactions with a business service or device for other purposes shall be:

(1)Compatible with the business purpose for which the personal information was collected.

(2)Subsequently pseudonymized and deidentified, or deidentified and in the aggregate, such that the information cannot reasonably identify, relate to, describe, be capable of being associated with, or be linked, directly or indirectly, to a particular consumer, by a business.

(3)Made subject to technical safeguards that prohibit reidentification of the consumer to whom the information may pertain, other than as needed to support the research.

(4)Subject to business processes that specifically prohibit reidentification of the information, other than as needed to support the research.

(5)Made subject to business processes to prevent inadvertent release of deidentified information.

(6)Protected from any reidentification attempts.

(7)Used solely for research purposes that are compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected.

(8)Subjected by the business conducting the research to additional security controls that limit access to the research data to only those individuals as are necessary to carry out the research purpose.

(af)Security and integrity means the ability of:

(1)Networks or information systems to detect security incidents that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal information.

(2)Businesses to detect security incidents, resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions and to help prosecute those responsible for those actions.

(3)Businesses to ensure the physical safety of natural persons.

(ag)(1)Sell, selling, sale, or sold, means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumers personal information by the business to a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

(2)For purposes of this title, a business does not sell personal information when:

(A)A consumer uses or directs the business to intentionally:

(i)Disclose personal information.

(ii)Interact with one or more third parties.

(B)The business uses or shares an identifier for a consumer who has opted out of the sale of the consumers personal information or limited the use of the consumers sensitive personal information for the purposes of alerting persons that the consumer has opted out of the sale of the consumers personal information or limited the use of the consumers sensitive personal information.

(C)The business transfers to a third party the personal information of a consumer as an asset that is part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which the third party assumes control of all or part of the business, provided that information is used or shared consistently with this title. If a third party materially alters how it uses or shares the personal information of a consumer in a manner that is materially inconsistent with the promises made at the time of collection, it shall provide prior notice of the new or changed practice to the consumer. The notice shall be sufficiently prominent and robust to ensure that existing consumers can easily exercise their choices consistently with this title. This subparagraph does not authorize a business to make material, retroactive privacy policy changes or make other changes in their privacy policy in a manner that would violate the Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code).

(ah)Sensitive personal information means:

(1)Personal information that reveals:

(A)A consumers social security, drivers license, state identification card, or passport number.

(B)A consumers account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account.

(C)A consumers precise geolocation.

(D)A consumers racial or ethnic origin, citizenship or immigration status, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership.

(E)The contents of a consumers mail, email, and text messages unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication.

(F)A consumers genetic data.

(2)(A)The processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer.

(B)Personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumers health.

(C)Personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumers sex life or sexual orientation.

(3)Sensitive personal information that is publicly available pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (x) shall not be considered sensitive personal information or personal information.

(ai)Service or services means work, labor, and services, including services furnished in connection with the sale or repair of goods.

(aj)(1)Service provider means a person that processes personal information on behalf of a business and that receives from or on behalf of the business consumers personal information for a business purpose pursuant to a written contract, provided that the contract prohibits the person from:

(A)Selling or sharing the personal information.

(B)Retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for any purpose other than for the business purposes specified in the contract for the business, including retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for a commercial purpose other than the business purposes specified in the contract with the business, or as otherwise permitted by this title.

(C)Retaining, using, or disclosing the information outside of the direct business relationship between the service provider and the business.

(D)Combining the personal information that the service provider receives from, or on behalf of, the business with personal information that it receives from, or on behalf of, another person or persons, or collects from its own interaction with the consumer, provided that the service provider may combine personal information to perform any business purpose as defined in regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (10) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, except as provided for in paragraph (6) of subdivision (f) of this section and in regulations adopted by the California Privacy Protection Agency. The contract may, subject to agreement with the service provider, permit the business to monitor the service providers compliance with the contract through measures, including, but not limited to, ongoing manual reviews and automated scans and regular assessments, audits, or other technical and operational testing at least once every 12 months.

(2)If a service provider engages any other person to assist it in processing personal information for a business purpose on behalf of the business, or if any other person engaged by the service provider engages another person to assist in processing personal information for that business purpose, it shall notify the business of that engagement, and the engagement shall be pursuant to a written contract binding the other person to observe all the requirements set forth in paragraph (1).

(ak)(1)Share, shared, or sharing means sharing, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumers personal information by the business to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not for monetary or other valuable consideration, including transactions between a business and a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising for the benefit of a business in which no money is exchanged.

(2)For purposes of this title, a business does not share personal information when:

(A)A consumer uses or directs the business to intentionally disclose personal information or intentionally interact with one or more third parties.

(B)The business uses or shares an identifier for a consumer who has opted out of the sharing of the consumers personal information or limited the use of the consumers sensitive personal information for the purposes of alerting persons that the consumer has opted out of the sharing of the consumers personal information or limited the use of the consumers sensitive personal information.

(C)The business transfers to a third party the personal information of a consumer as an asset that is part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which the third party assumes control of all or part of the business, provided that information is used or shared consistently with this title. If a third party materially alters how it uses or shares the personal information of a consumer in a manner that is materially inconsistent with the promises made at the time of collection, it shall provide prior notice of the new or changed practice to the consumer. The notice shall be sufficiently prominent and robust to ensure that existing consumers can easily exercise their choices consistently with this title. This subparagraph does not authorize a business to make material, retroactive privacy policy changes or make other changes in their privacy policy in a manner that would violate the Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code).

(al)Third party means a person who is not any of the following:

(1)The business with whom the consumer intentionally interacts and that collects personal information from the consumer as part of the consumers current interaction with the business under this title.

(2)A service provider to the business.

(3)A contractor.

(am)Train means exposing to expose artificial intelligence to data in order to alter the relationship between inputs and outputs.

(an)Unique identifier or unique personal identifier means a persistent identifier that can be used to recognize a consumer, a family, or a device that is linked to a consumer or family, over time and across different services, including, but not limited to, a device identifier; an Internet Protocol address; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers, or similar technology; customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias; telephone numbers, or other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers that can be used to identify a particular consumer or device that is linked to a consumer or family. For purposes of this subdivision, family means a custodial parent or guardian and any children under 18 years of age over which the parent or guardian has custody.

(ao)Verifiable consumer request means a request that is made by a consumer, by a consumer on behalf of the consumers minor child, by a natural person or a person registered with the Secretary of State, authorized by the consumer to act on the consumers behalf, or by a person who has power of attorney or is acting as a conservator for the consumer, and that the business can verify, using commercially reasonable methods, pursuant to regulations adopted by the Attorney General pursuant to paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185 to be the consumer about whom the business has collected personal information. A business is not obligated to provide information to the consumer pursuant to Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115, to delete personal information pursuant to Section 1798.105, or to correct inaccurate personal information pursuant to Section 1798.106, if the business cannot verify, pursuant to this subdivision and regulations adopted by the Attorney General pursuant to paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, that the consumer making the request is the consumer about whom the business has collected information or is a person authorized by the consumer to act on such consumers behalf.

Exemptions

(a)(1)The obligations imposed on businesses by this title shall not restrict a businesss ability to:

(A)Comply with federal, state, or local laws or comply with a court order or subpoena to provide information.

(B)Comply with a civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, or local authorities. Law enforcement agencies, including police and sheriffs departments, may direct a business pursuant to a law enforcement agency-approved investigation with an active case number not to delete a consumers personal information, and, upon receipt of that direction, a business shall not delete the personal information for 90 days in order to allow the law enforcement agency to obtain a court-issued subpoena, order, or warrant to obtain a consumers personal information. For good cause and only to the extent necessary for investigatory purposes, a law enforcement agency may direct a business not to delete the consumers personal information for additional 90-day periods. A business that has received direction from a law enforcement agency not to delete the personal information of a consumer who has requested deletion of the consumers personal information shall not use the consumers personal information for any purpose other than retaining it to produce to law enforcement in response to a court-issued subpoena, order, or warrant unless the consumers deletion request is subject to an exemption from deletion under this title.

(C)Cooperate with law enforcement agencies concerning conduct or activity that the business, service provider, or third party reasonably and in good faith believes may violate federal, state, or local law.

(D)(i)Cooperate with a government agency request for emergency access to a consumers personal information if a natural person is at risk or danger of death or serious physical injury provided that:

(I)The request is approved by a high-ranking agency officer for emergency access to a consumers personal information.

(II)The request is based on the agencys good faith determination that it has a lawful basis to access the information on a nonemergency basis.

(III)The agency agrees to petition a court for an appropriate order within three days and to destroy the information if that order is not granted.

(ii)For purposes of this subparagraph, a consumer accessing, procuring, or searching for services regarding contraception, pregnancy care, and perinatal care, including, but not limited to, abortion services, shall not constitute a natural person being at risk or danger of death or serious physical injury.

(E)Exercise or defend legal claims.

(F)Collect, use, retain, sell, share, or disclose consumers personal information that is deidentified or aggregate consumer information.

(G)Collect, sell, or share a consumers personal information if every aspect of that commercial conduct takes place wholly outside of California. For purposes of this title, commercial conduct takes place wholly outside of California if the business collected that information while the consumer was outside of California, no part of the sale of the consumers personal information occurred in California, and no personal information collected while the consumer was in California is sold. This paragraph shall not prohibit a business from storing, including on a device, personal information about a consumer when the consumer is in California and then collecting that personal information when the consumer and stored personal information is outside of California.

(2)(A)This subdivision shall not apply if the consumers personal information contains information related to accessing, procuring, or searching for services regarding contraception, pregnancy care, and perinatal care, including, but not limited to, abortion services.

(B)This paragraph does not alter the use of aggregated or deidentified personal information consistent with a business purpose as defined in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (7), or (8) of subdivision (f) of Section 1798.140, provided that the personal information is only retained in aggregated and deidentified form and is not sold or shared.

(C)This paragraph does not alter the duty of a business to preserve or retain evidence pursuant to California or federal law in an ongoing civil proceeding.

(b)The obligations imposed on businesses by Sections 1798.110, 1798.115, 1798.120, 1798.121, 1798.130, and 1798.135 shall not apply where compliance by the business with the title would violate an evidentiary privilege under California law and shall not prevent a business from providing the personal information of a consumer to a person covered by an evidentiary privilege under California law as part of a privileged communication.

(c)(1)This title shall not apply to any of the following:

(A)Medical information governed by the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 56) of Division 1) or protected health information that is collected by a covered entity or business associate governed by the privacy, security, and breach notification rules issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Parts 160 and 164 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, established pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-191) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (Public Law 111-5).

(B)A provider of health care governed by the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 56) of Division 1) or a covered entity governed by the privacy, security, and breach notification rules issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Parts 160 and 164 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, established pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-191), to the extent the provider or covered entity maintains patient information in the same manner as medical information or protected health information as described in subparagraph (A) of this section.

(C)Personal information collected as part of a clinical trial or other biomedical research study subject to, or conducted in accordance with, the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, also known as the Common Rule, pursuant to good clinical practice guidelines issued by the International Council for Harmonisation or pursuant to human subject protection requirements of the United States Food and Drug Administration, provided that the information is not sold or shared in a manner not permitted by this subparagraph, and, if it is inconsistent, that participants be informed of that use and provide consent.

(2)For purposes of this subdivision, the definitions of medical information and provider of health care in Section 56.05 shall apply and the definitions of business associate, covered entity, and protected health information in Section 160.103 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations shall apply.

(d)(1)This title shall not apply to an activity involving the collection, maintenance, disclosure, sale, communication, or use of any personal information bearing on a consumers creditworthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living by a consumer reporting agency, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 1681a of Title 15 of the United States Code, by a furnisher of information, as set forth in Section 1681s-2 of Title 15 of the United States Code, who provides information for use in a consumer report, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 1681a of Title 15 of the United States Code, and by a user of a consumer report as set forth in Section 1681b of Title 15 of the United States Code.

(2)Paragraph (1) shall apply only to the extent that such activity involving the collection, maintenance, disclosure, sale, communication, or use of such information by that agency, furnisher, or user is subject to regulation under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Section 1681 et seq., Title 15 of the United States Code and the information is not collected, maintained, used, communicated, disclosed, or sold except as authorized by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

(3)This subdivision shall not apply to Section 1798.150.

(e)This title shall not apply to personal information collected, processed, sold, or disclosed subject to the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Public Law 106-102), and implementing regulations, or the California Financial Information Privacy Act (Division 1.4 (commencing with Section 4050) of the Financial Code), or the federal Farm Credit Act of 1971 (as amended in 12 U.S.C. 2001-2279cc and implementing regulations, 12 C.F.R. 600, et seq.). This subdivision shall not apply to Section 1798.150.

(f)This title shall not apply to personal information collected, processed, sold, or disclosed pursuant to the Drivers Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 2721 et seq.). This subdivision shall not apply to Section 1798.150.

(g)(1)Section 1798.120 shall not apply to vehicle information or ownership information retained or shared between a new motor vehicle dealer, as defined in Section 426 of the Vehicle Code, and the vehicles manufacturer, as defined in Section 672 of the Vehicle Code, if the vehicle information or ownership information is shared for the purpose of effectuating, or in anticipation of effectuating, a vehicle repair covered by a vehicle warranty or a recall conducted pursuant to Sections 30118 to 30120, inclusive, of Title 49 of the United States Code, provided that the new motor vehicle dealer or vehicle manufacturer with which that vehicle information or ownership information is shared does not sell, share, or use that information for any other purpose.

(2)Section 1798.120 shall not apply to vessel information or ownership information retained or shared between a vessel dealer and the vessels manufacturer, as defined in Section 651 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, if the vessel information or ownership information is shared for the purpose of effectuating, or in anticipation of effectuating, a vessel repair covered by a vessel warranty or a recall conducted pursuant to Section 4310 of Title 46 of the United States Code, provided that the vessel dealer or vessel manufacturer with which that vessel information or ownership information is shared does not sell, share, or use that information for any other purpose.

(3)For purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Ownership information means the name or names of the registered owner or owners and the contact information for the owner or owners.

(B)Vehicle information means the vehicle information number, make, model, year, and odometer reading.

(C)Vessel dealer means a person who is engaged, wholly or in part, in the business of selling or offering for sale, buying or taking in trade for the purpose of resale, or exchanging, any vessel or vessels, as defined in Section 651 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, and receives or expects to receive money, profit, or any other thing of value.

(D)Vessel information means the hull identification number, model, year, month and year of production, and information describing any of the following equipment as shipped, transferred, or sold from the place of manufacture, including all attached parts and accessories:

(i)An inboard engine.

(ii)An outboard engine.

(iii)A stern drive unit.

(iv)An inflatable personal floatation device approved under Section 160.076 of Title 46 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

(h)Notwithstanding a businesss obligations to respond to and honor consumer rights requests pursuant to this title:

(1)A time period for a business to respond to a consumer for any verifiable consumer request may be extended by up to a total of 90 days where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests. The business shall inform the consumer of any such extension within 45 days of receipt of the request, together with the reasons for the delay.

(2)If the business does not take action on the request of the consumer, the business shall inform the consumer, without delay and at the latest within the time period permitted of response by this section, of the reasons for not taking action and any rights the consumer may have to appeal the decision to the business.

(3)If requests from a consumer are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character, a business may either charge a reasonable fee, taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested, or refuse to act on the request and notify the consumer of the reason for refusing the request. The business shall bear the burden of demonstrating that any verifiable consumer request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

(i)(1)A business that discloses personal information to a service provider or contractor in compliance with this title shall not be liable under this title if the service provider or contractor receiving the personal information uses it in violation of the restrictions set forth in the title, provided that, at the time of disclosing the personal information, the business does not have actual knowledge, or reason to believe, that the service provider or contractor intends to commit such a violation. A service provider or contractor shall likewise not be liable under this title for the obligations of a business for which it provides services as set forth in this title provided that the service provider or contractor shall be liable for its own violations of this title.

(2)A business that discloses personal information of a consumer, with the exception of consumers who have exercised their right to opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information, consumers who have limited the use or disclosure of their sensitive personal information, and minor consumers who have not opted in to the collection or sale of their personal information, to a third party pursuant to a written contract that requires the third party to provide the same level of protection of the consumers rights under this title as provided by the business shall not be liable under this title if the third party receiving the personal information uses it in violation of the restrictions set forth in this title provided that, at the time of disclosing the personal information, the business does not have actual knowledge, or reason to believe, that the third party intends to commit such a violation.

(j)This title shall not be construed to require a business, service provider, or contractor to:

(1)Reidentify or otherwise link information that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information.

(2)Retain any personal information about a consumer if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about the consumer would not be retained.

(3)Maintain information in identifiable, linkable, or associable form, or collect, obtain, retain, or access any data or technology, in order to be capable of linking or associating a verifiable consumer request with personal information.

(k)The rights afforded to consumers and the obligations imposed on the business in this title shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other natural persons. A verifiable consumer request for specific pieces of personal information pursuant to Section 1798.110, to delete a consumers personal information pursuant to Section 1798.105, or to correct inaccurate personal information pursuant to Section 1798.106, shall not extend to personal information about the consumer that belongs to, or the business maintains on behalf of, another natural person. A business may rely on representations made in a verifiable consumer request as to rights with respect to personal information and is under no legal requirement to seek out other persons that may have or claim to have rights to personal information, and a business is under no legal obligation under this title or any other provision of law to take any action under this title in the event of a dispute between or among persons claiming rights to personal information in the businesss possession.

(l)The rights afforded to consumers and the obligations imposed on any business under this title shall not apply to the extent that they infringe on the noncommercial activities of a person or entity described in subdivision (b) of Section 2 of Article I of the California Constitution.

(m)(1)This title shall not apply to any of the following:

(A)Personal information that is collected by a business about a natural person in the course of the natural person acting as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or independent contractor of, that business to the extent that the natural persons personal information is collected and used by the business solely within the context of the natural persons role or former role as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or an independent contractor of, that business.

(B)Personal information that is collected by a business that is emergency contact information of the natural person acting as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or independent contractor of, that business to the extent that the personal information is collected and used solely within the context of having an emergency contact on file.

(C)Personal information that is necessary for the business to retain to administer benefits for another natural person relating to the natural person acting as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or independent contractor of, that business to the extent that the personal information is collected and used solely within the context of administering those benefits.

(2)For purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Independent contractor means a natural person who provides any service to a business pursuant to a written contract.

(B)Director means a natural person designated in the articles of incorporation as director, or elected by the incorporators and natural persons designated, elected, or appointed by any other name or title to act as directors, and their successors.

(C)Medical staff member means a licensed physician and surgeon, dentist, or podiatrist, licensed pursuant to Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) of the Business and Professions Code and a clinical psychologist as defined in Section 1316.5 of the Health and Safety Code.

(D)Officer means a natural person elected or appointed by the board of directors to manage the daily operations of a corporation, including a chief executive officer, president, secretary, or treasurer.

(E)Owner means a natural person who meets one of the following criteria:

(i)Has ownership of, or the power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a business.

(ii)Has control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors or of individuals exercising similar functions.

(iii)Has the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management of a company.

(3)This subdivision shall not apply to subdivision (a) of Section 1798.100 or Section 1798.150.

(4)This subdivision shall become inoperative on January 1, 2023.

(n)(1)The obligations imposed on businesses by Sections 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, 1798.121, 1798.130, and 1798.135 shall not apply to personal information reflecting a written or verbal communication or a transaction between the business and the consumer, where the consumer is a natural person who acted or is acting as an employee, owner, director, officer, or independent contractor of a company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency and whose communications or transaction with the business occur solely within the context of the business conducting due diligence regarding, or providing or receiving a product or service to or from such company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency.

(2)For purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Independent contractor means a natural person who provides any service to a business pursuant to a written contract.

(B)Director means a natural person designated in the articles of incorporation as such or elected by the incorporators and natural persons designated, elected, or appointed by any other name or title to act as directors, and their successors.

(C)Officer means a natural person elected or appointed by the board of directors to manage the daily operations of a corporation, such as a chief executive officer, president, secretary, or treasurer.

(D)Owner means a natural person who meets one of the following:

(i)Has ownership of, or the power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a business.

(ii)Has control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors or of individuals exercising similar functions.

(iii)Has the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management of a company.

(3)This subdivision shall become inoperative on January 1, 2023.

(o)(1)Sections 1798.105 and 1798.120 shall not apply to a commercial credit reporting agencys collection, processing, sale, or disclosure of business controller information to the extent the commercial credit reporting agency uses the business controller information solely to identify the relationship of a consumer to a business that the consumer owns or contact the consumer only in the consumers role as the owner, director, officer, or management employee of the business.

(2)For the purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Business controller information means the name or names of the owner or owners, director, officer, or management employee of a business and the contact information, including a business title, for the owner or owners, director, officer, or management employee.

(B)Commercial credit reporting agency has the meaning set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 1785.42.

(C)Owner means a natural person that meets one of the following:

(i)Has ownership of, or the power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a business.

(ii)Has control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors or of individuals exercising similar functions.

(iii)Has the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management of a company.

(D)Director means a natural person designated in the articles of incorporation of a business as director, or elected by the incorporators and natural persons designated, elected, or appointed by any other name or title to act as directors, and their successors.

(E)Officer means a natural person elected or appointed by the board of directors of a business to manage the daily operations of a corporation, including a chief executive officer, president, secretary, or treasurer.

(F)Management employee means a natural person whose name and contact information is reported to or collected by a commercial credit reporting agency as the primary manager of a business and used solely within the context of the natural persons role as the primary manager of the business.

(p)The obligations imposed on businesses in Sections 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, and 1798.115 shall not apply to household data.

(q)(1)This title does not require a business to comply with a verifiable consumer request to delete a consumers personal information under Section 1798.105 to the extent the verifiable consumer request applies to a students grades, educational scores, or educational test results that the business holds on behalf of a local educational agency, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 49073.1 of the Education Code, at which the student is currently enrolled. If a business does not comply with a request pursuant to this section, it shall notify the consumer that it is acting pursuant to this exception.

(2)This title does not require, in response to a request pursuant to Section 1798.110, that a business disclose on educational standardized assessment or educational assessment or a consumers specific responses to the educational standardized assessment or educational assessment if consumer access, possession, or control would jeopardize the validity and reliability of that educational standardized assessment or educational assessment. If a business does not comply with a request pursuant to this section, it shall notify the consumer that it is acting pursuant to this exception.

(3)For purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Educational standardized assessment or educational assessment means a standardized or nonstandardized quiz, test, or other assessment used to evaluate students in or for entry to kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, schools, postsecondary institutions, vocational programs, and postgraduate programs that are accredited by an accrediting agency or organization recognized by the State of California or the United States Department of Education, as well as certification and licensure examinations used to determine competency and eligibility to receive certification or licensure from a government agency or government certification body.

(B)Jeopardize the validity and reliability of that educational standardized assessment or educational assessment means releasing information that would provide an advantage to the consumer who has submitted a verifiable consumer request or to another natural person.

(r)Sections 1798.105 and 1798.120 shall not apply to a businesss use, disclosure, or sale of particular pieces of a consumers personal information if the consumer has consented to the businesss use, disclosure, or sale of that information to produce a physical item, including a school yearbook containing the consumers photograph if:

(1)The business has incurred significant expense in reliance on the consumers consent.

(2)Compliance with the consumers request to opt out of the sale of the consumers personal information or to delete the consumers personal information would not be commercially reasonable.

(3)The business complies with the consumers request as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so.

Regulations

(a)On or before July 1, 2020, the Attorney General shall solicit broad public participation and adopt regulations to further the purposes of this title, including, but not limited to, the following areas:

(1)Updating or adding categories of personal information to those enumerated in subdivision (c) of Section 1798.130 and subdivision (x) of Section 1798.140, and updating or adding categories of sensitive personal information to those enumerated in subdivision (ag) of Section 1798.140 in order to address changes in technology, data collection practices, obstacles to implementation, and privacy concerns.

(2)Updating as needed the definitions of deidentified and unique identifier to address changes in technology, data collection, obstacles to implementation, and privacy concerns, and adding, modifying, or deleting categories to the definition of designated methods for submitting requests to facilitate a consumers ability to obtain information from a business pursuant to Section 1798.130. The authority to update the definition of deidentified shall not apply to deidentification standards set forth in Section 164.514 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, where such information previously was protected health information as defined in Section 160.103 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

(3)Establishing any exceptions necessary to comply with state or federal law, including, but not limited to, those relating to trade secrets and intellectual property rights, within one year of passage of this title and as needed thereafter, with the intention that trade secrets should not be disclosed in response to a verifiable consumer request.

(4)Establishing rules and procedures for the following:

(A)To facilitate and govern the submission of a request by a consumer to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information pursuant to Section 1798.120 and to limit the use of a consumers sensitive personal information pursuant to Section 1798.121 to ensure that consumers have the ability to exercise their choices without undue burden and to prevent business from engaging in deceptive or harassing conduct, including in retaliation against consumers for exercising their rights, while allowing businesses to inform consumers of the consequences of their decision to opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information or to limit the use of their sensitive personal information.

(B)To govern business compliance with a consumers opt-out request.

(C)For the development and use of a recognizable and uniform opt-out logo or button by all businesses to promote consumer awareness of the opportunity to opt out of the sale of personal information.

(5)Adjusting the monetary thresholds, in January of every odd-numbered year to reflect any increase in the Consumer Price Index, in: subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (e) of Section 1798.140; subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.150; subdivision (a) of Section 1798.155; Section 1798.199.25; and subdivision (a) of Section 1798.199.90.

(6)Establishing rules, procedures, and any exceptions necessary to ensure that the notices and information that businesses are required to provide pursuant to this title are provided in a manner that may be easily understood by the average consumer, are accessible to consumers with disabilities, and are available in the language primarily used to interact with the consumer, including establishing rules and guidelines regarding financial incentives within one year of passage of this title and as needed thereafter.

(7)Establishing rules and procedures to further the purposes of Sections 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, and 1798.115 and to facilitate a consumers or the consumers authorized agents ability to delete personal information, correct inaccurate personal information pursuant to Section 1798.106, or obtain information pursuant to Section 1798.130, with the goal of minimizing the administrative burden on consumers, taking into account available technology, security concerns, and the burden on the business, to govern a businesss determination that a request for information received from a consumer is a verifiable consumer request, including treating a request submitted through a password-protected account maintained by the consumer with the business while the consumer is logged into the account as a verifiable consumer request and providing a mechanism for a consumer who does not maintain an account with the business to request information through the businesss authentication of the consumers identity, within one year of passage of this title and as needed thereafter.

(8)Establishing how often, and under what circumstances, a consumer may request a correction pursuant to Section 1798.106, including standards governing the following:

(A)How a business responds to a request for correction, including exceptions for requests to which a response is impossible or would involve disproportionate effort, and requests for correction of accurate information.

(B)How concerns regarding the accuracy of the information may be resolved.

(C)The steps a business may take to prevent fraud.

(D)If a business rejects a request to correct personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumers health, the right of a consumer to provide a written addendum to the business with respect to any item or statement regarding any such personal information that the consumer believes to be incomplete or incorrect. The addendum shall be limited to 250 words per alleged incomplete or incorrect item and shall clearly indicate in writing that the consumer requests the addendum to be made a part of the consumers record.

(9)Establishing the standard to govern a businesss determination, pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.130, that providing information beyond the 12-month period in a response to a verifiable consumer request is impossible or would involve a disproportionate effort.

(10)Issuing regulations further defining and adding to the business purposes, including other notified purposes, for which businesses, service providers, and contractors may use consumers personal information consistent with consumers expectations, and further defining the business purposes for which service providers and contractors may combine consumers personal information obtained from different sources, except as provided for in paragraph (6) of subdivision (f) of Section 1798.140.

(11)Issuing regulations identifying those business purposes, including other notified purposes, for which service providers and contractors may use consumers personal information received pursuant to a written contract with a business, for the service provider providers or contractors own business purposes, with the goal of maximizing consumer privacy.

(12)Issuing regulations to further define intentionally interacts, with the goal of maximizing consumer privacy.

(13)Issuing regulations to further define precise geolocation, including if the size defined is not sufficient to protect consumer privacy in sparsely populated areas or when the personal information is used for normal operational purposes, including billing.

(14)Issuing regulations to define the term specific pieces of information obtained from the consumer with the goal of maximizing a consumers right to access relevant personal information while minimizing the delivery of information to a consumer that would not be useful to the consumer, including system log information and other technical data. For delivery of the most sensitive personal information, the regulations may require a higher standard of authentication provided that the agency shall monitor the impact of the higher standard on the right of consumers to obtain their personal information to ensure that the requirements of verification do not result in the unreasonable denial of verifiable consumer requests.

(15)Issuing regulations requiring businesses whose processing of consumers personal information presents significant risk to consumers privacy or security, to:

(A)Perform a cybersecurity audit on an annual basis, including defining the scope of the audit and establishing a process to ensure that audits are thorough and independent. The factors to be considered in determining when processing may result in significant risk to the security of personal information shall include the size and complexity of the business and the nature and scope of processing activities.

(B)Submit to the California Privacy Protection Agency on a regular basis a risk assessment with respect to their processing of personal information, including whether the processing involves sensitive personal information, and identifying and weighing the benefits resulting from the processing to the business, the consumer, other stakeholders, and the public, against the potential risks to the rights of the consumer associated with that processing, with the goal of restricting or prohibiting the processing if the risks to privacy of the consumer outweigh the benefits resulting from processing to the consumer, the business, other stakeholders, and the public. Nothing in this section shall require a business to divulge trade secrets.

(16)Issuing regulations governing access and opt-out rights with respect to businesses use of automated decisionmaking technology, including profiling and requiring businesses response to access requests to include meaningful information about the logic involved in those decisionmaking processes, as well as a description of the likely outcome of the process with respect to the consumer.

(17)Issuing regulations to further define a law enforcement agency-approved investigation for purposes of the exception in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.145.

(18)Issuing regulations to define the scope and process for the exercise of the agencys audit authority, to establish criteria for selection of persons to audit, and to protect consumers personal information from disclosure to an auditor in the absence of a court order, warrant, or subpoena.

(19)(A)Issuing regulations to define the requirements and technical specifications for an opt-out preference signal sent by a platform, technology, or mechanism, to indicate a consumers intent to opt out of the sale or sharing of the consumers personal information and to limit the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information. The requirements and specifications for the opt-out preference signal should be updated from time to time to reflect the means by which consumers interact with businesses, and should:

(i)Ensure that the manufacturer of a platform or browser or device that sends the opt-out preference signal cannot unfairly disadvantage another business.

(ii)Ensure that the opt-out preference signal is consumer-friendly, clearly described, and easy to use by an average consumer and does not require that the consumer provide additional information beyond what is necessary.

(iii)Clearly represent a consumers intent and be free of defaults constraining or presupposing that intent.

(iv)Ensure that the opt-out preference signal does not conflict with other commonly used privacy settings or tools that consumers may employ.

(v)Provide a mechanism for the consumer to selectively consent to a businesss sale of the consumers personal information, or the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information, without affecting the consumers preferences with respect to other businesses or disabling the opt-out preference signal globally.

(vi)State that in the case of a page or setting view that the consumer accesses to set the opt-out preference signal, the consumer should see up to three choices, including:

(I)Global opt out from sale and sharing of personal information, including a direction to limit the use of sensitive personal information.

(II)Choice to Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information.

(III)Choice titled Do Not Sell/Do Not Share My Personal Information for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising.

(B)Issuing regulations to establish technical specifications for an opt-out preference signal that allows the consumer, or the consumers parent or guardian, to specify that the consumer is less than 13 years of age or at least 13 years of age and less than 16 years of age.

(C)Issuing regulations, with the goal of strengthening consumer privacy while considering the legitimate operational interests of businesses, to govern the use or disclosure of a consumers sensitive personal information, notwithstanding the consumers direction to limit the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information, including:

(i)Determining any additional purposes for which a business may use or disclose a consumers sensitive personal information.

(ii)Determining the scope of activities permitted under paragraph (8) of subdivision (f) of Section 1798.140, as authorized by subdivision (a) of Section 1798.121, to ensure that the activities do not involve health-related research.

(iii)Ensuring the functionality of the businesss operations.

(iv)Ensuring that the exemption in subdivision (d) of Section 1798.121 for sensitive personal information applies to information that is collected or processed incidentally, or without the purpose of inferring characteristics about a consumer, while ensuring that businesses do not use the exemption for the purpose of evading consumers rights to limit the use and disclosure of their sensitive personal information under Section 1798.121.

(20)Issuing regulations to govern how a business that has elected to comply with subdivision (b) of Section 1798.135 responds to the opt-out preference signal and provides consumers with the opportunity subsequently to consent to the sale or sharing of their personal information or the use and disclosure of their sensitive personal information for purposes in addition to those authorized by subdivision (a) of Section 1798.121. The regulations should:

(A)Strive to promote competition and consumer choice and be technology neutral.

(B)Ensure that the business does not respond to an opt-out preference signal by:

(i)Intentionally degrading the functionality of the consumer experience.

(ii)Charging the consumer a fee in response to the consumers opt-out preferences.

(iii)Making any products or services not function properly or fully for the consumer, as compared to consumers who do not use the opt-out preference signal.

(iv)Attempting to coerce the consumer to opt in to the sale or sharing of the consumers personal information, or the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information, by stating or implying that the use of the opt-out preference signal will adversely affect the consumer as compared to consumers who do not use the opt-out preference signal, including stating or implying that the consumer will not be able to use the businesss products or services or that those products or services may not function properly or fully.

(v)Displaying any notification or pop-up in response to the consumers opt-out preference signal.

(C)Ensure that any link to a web page or its supporting content that allows the consumer to consent to opt in:

(i)Is not part of a popup, notice, banner, or other intrusive design that obscures any part of the web page the consumer intended to visit from full view or that interferes with or impedes in any way the consumers experience visiting or browsing the web page or website the consumer intended to visit.

(ii)Does not require or imply that the consumer must click the link to receive full functionality of any products or services, including the website.

(iii)Does not make use of any dark patterns.

(iv)Applies only to the business with which the consumer intends to interact.

(D)Strive to curb coercive or deceptive practices in response to an opt-out preference signal but should not unduly restrict businesses that are trying in good faith to comply with Section 1798.135.

(21)Review existing Insurance Code provisions and regulations relating to consumer privacy, except those relating to insurance rates or pricing, to determine whether any provisions of the Insurance Code provide greater protection to consumers than the provisions of this title. Upon completing its review, the agency shall adopt a regulation that applies only the more protective provisions of this title to insurance companies. For the purpose of clarity, the Insurance Commissioner shall have jurisdiction over insurance rates and pricing.

(22)Harmonizing the regulations governing opt-out mechanisms, notices to consumers, and other operational mechanisms in this title to promote clarity and the functionality of this title for consumers.

(b)The Attorney General may adopt additional regulations as necessary to further the purposes of this title.

(c)The Attorney General shall not bring an enforcement action under this title until six months after the publication of the final regulations issued pursuant to this section or July 1, 2020, whichever is sooner.

(d)Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the timeline for adopting final regulations required by the act adding this subdivision shall be July 1, 2022. Beginning the later of July 1, 2021, or six months after the agency provides notice to the Attorney General that it is prepared to begin rulemaking under this title, the authority assigned to the Attorney General to adopt regulations under this section shall be exercised by the California Privacy Protection Agency. Notwithstanding any other law, civil and administrative enforcement of the provisions of law added or amended by this act shall not commence until July 1, 2023, and shall only apply to violations occurring on or after that date. Enforcement of provisions of law contained in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 amended by this act shall remain in effect and shall be enforceable until the same provisions of this act become enforceable.

The agency shall perform the following functions:

(a)Administer, implement, and enforce through administrative actions this title.

(b)On and after the later of July 1, 2021, or within six months of the agency providing the Attorney General with notice that it is prepared to assume rulemaking responsibilities under this title, adopt, amend, and rescind regulations pursuant to Section 1798.185 to carry out the purposes and provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, including regulations specifying recordkeeping requirements for businesses to ensure compliance with this title.

(c)Through the implementation of this title, protect the fundamental privacy rights of natural persons with respect to the use of their personal information.

(d)Promote public awareness and understanding of the risks, rules, responsibilities, safeguards, and rights in relation to the collection, use, sale, and disclosure of personal information, including the rights of minors with respect to their own information, and provide a public report summarizing the risk assessments filed with the agency pursuant to paragraph (15) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185 while ensuring that data security is not compromised.

(e)Provide guidance to consumers regarding their rights under this title.

(f)Provide guidance to businesses regarding their duties and responsibilities under this title and appoint a Chief Privacy Auditor to conduct audits of businesses to ensure compliance with this title pursuant to regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (18) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185.

(g)Provide technical assistance and advice to the Legislature, upon request, with respect to privacy-related legislation.

(h)Monitor relevant developments relating to the protection of personal information and, in particular, the development of information and communication technologies and commercial practices.

(i)Cooperate with other agencies with jurisdiction over privacy laws and with data processing authorities in California, other states, territories, and countries to ensure consistent application of privacy protections.

(j)Establish a mechanism pursuant to which persons doing business in California that do not meet the definition of business set forth in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subdivision (e) of Section 1798.140 may voluntarily certify that they are in compliance with this title, as set forth in paragraph (4) of subdivision (e) of Section 1798.140, and make a list of those entities available to the public.

(k)Solicit, review, and approve applications for grants to the extent funds are available pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1798.160.

(l)Perform all other acts necessary or appropriate in the exercise of its power, authority, and jurisdiction and seek to balance the goals of strengthening consumer privacy while giving attention to the impact on businesses.

If the sale or sharing of a consumers personal information requires affirmative authorization under subdivision (c) of Section 1798.120, a (a)A developer shall not use the personal information of that a consumer described by subdivision (c) of Section 1798.120 to train or retrain an artificial intelligence system or service unless the consumer or the consumers parent or guardian has affirmatively authorized, in the same manner as described in subdivision (c) of Section 1798.120, that use of the consumers personal information. If affirmative authorization is given, the personal information shall be deidentified and aggregated before being used to train an artificial intelligence system or service.

(a)A person or business shall not collect, use, disclose, or retain the personal information of a person who is physically located at, or within a precise geolocation of, a family planning center, except as specified in subdivision (c).

(b)For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:

(1)Business means the same as defined in subdivision (c) (e) of Section 1798.140.

(2)Collect means the same as defined in subdivision (f) (g) of Section 1798.140.

(3)Family planning center means a business categorized as a family planning center by the North American Industry Classification System adopted by the United States Census Bureau, including, but not limited to, a clinic or center that provides reproductive health care services as defined in Section 1798.300 of the Civil Code.

(4)Personal information has the same definition as that term is defined in subdivision (v) (x) of Section 1798.140, except as applied to all persons and not limited to consumers and households, as those terms are defined in subdivisions (i) and (q), (j) and (s), respectively, of that section.

(5)Precise geolocation means a geographic area that is equal to or less than the area of a circle with a radius of 1,850 feet as derived from a device that is used or intended to be used to locate a person.

(6)Sell means the same as defined in subdivision (ad) (af) of Section 1798.140.

(7)Share means the same as defined in subdivision (ah) (aj) of Section 1798.140.

(c)A person or business shall not collect, use, disclose, or retain the personal information of a person who is physically located at, or within a precise geolocation of, a family planning center, except only as necessary to perform the services or provide the goods requested by the person. A person or business shall not sell or share this personal information.

(d)(1)An aggrieved person or entity, including a family planning center, may institute and prosecute a civil action against any person or business who violates this section for injunctive and monetary relief and attorneys fees within three years of discovery of the violation.

(2)If the court finds for the petitioner in an action authorized by paragraph (1), recovery shall be in the amount of three times the amount of actual damages and any other expenses, costs, or reasonable attorneys fees incurred in connection with the litigation.

(e)This section does not apply to a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or contractor, as those terms are defined in Section 56.05.

Consumers Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

(a)A consumer shall have the right, at any time, to direct a business that collects sensitive personal information about the consumer to limit its use of the consumers sensitive personal information to that use which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those goods or services, to perform the services set forth in paragraphs (2), (4), (5), and (8) of subdivision (e) (f) of Section 1798.140, and as authorized by regulations adopted pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (19) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185. A business that uses or discloses a consumers sensitive personal information for purposes other than those specified in this subdivision shall provide notice to consumers, pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1798.135, that this information may be used, or disclosed to a service provider or contractor, for additional, specified purposes and that consumers have the right to limit the use or disclosure of their sensitive personal information.

(b)A business that has received direction from a consumer not to use or disclose the consumers sensitive personal information, except as authorized by subdivision (a), shall be prohibited, pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (c) of Section 1798.135, from using or disclosing the consumers sensitive personal information for any other purpose after its receipt of the consumers direction unless the consumer subsequently provides consent for the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information for additional purposes.

(c)A service provider or contractor that assists a business in performing the purposes authorized by subdivision (a) may not use the sensitive personal information after it has received instructions from the business and to the extent it has actual knowledge that the personal information is sensitive personal information for any other purpose. A service provider or contractor is only required to limit its use of sensitive personal information received pursuant to a written contract with the business in response to instructions from the business and only with respect to its relationship with that business.

(d)Sensitive personal information that is collected or processed without the purpose of inferring characteristics about a consumer is not subject to this section, as further defined in regulations adopted pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (19) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, and shall be treated as personal information for purposes of all other sections of this act, including Section 1798.100.

Notice, Disclosure, Correction, and Deletion Requirements

(a)In order to comply with Sections 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, and 1798.125, a business shall, in a form that is reasonably accessible to consumers:

(1)(A)Make available to consumers two or more designated methods for submitting requests for information required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115, or requests for deletion or correction pursuant to Sections 1798.105 and 1798.106, respectively, including, at a minimum, a toll-free telephone number. A business that operates exclusively online and has a direct relationship with a consumer from whom it collects personal information shall only be required to provide an email address for submitting requests for information required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115, or for requests for deletion or correction pursuant to Sections 1798.105 and 1798.106, respectively.

(B)If the business maintains an internet website, make the internet website available to consumers to submit requests for information required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115, or requests for deletion or correction pursuant to Sections 1798.105 and 1798.106, respectively.

(2)(A)Disclose and deliver the required information to a consumer free of charge, correct inaccurate personal information, or delete a consumers personal information, based on the consumers request, within 45 days of receiving a verifiable consumer request from the consumer. The business shall promptly take steps to determine whether the request is a verifiable consumer request, but this shall not extend the businesss duty to disclose and deliver the information, to correct inaccurate personal information, or to delete personal information within 45 days of receipt of the consumers request. The time period to provide the required information, to correct inaccurate personal information, or to delete personal information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary, provided the consumer is provided notice of the extension within the first 45-day period. The disclosure of the required information shall be made in writing and delivered through the consumers account with the business, if the consumer maintains an account with the business, or by mail or electronically at the consumers option if the consumer does not maintain an account with the business, in a readily useable format that allows the consumer to transmit this information from one entity to another entity without hindrance. The business may require authentication of the consumer that is reasonable in light of the nature of the personal information requested, but shall not require the consumer to create an account with the business in order to make a verifiable consumer request provided that if the consumer, has an account with the business, the business may require the consumer to use that account to submit a verifiable consumer request.

(B)The disclosure of the required information shall cover the 12-month period preceding the business receipt of the verifiable consumer request provided that, upon the adoption of a regulation pursuant to paragraph (9) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, a consumer may request that the business disclose the required information beyond the 12-month period, and the business shall be required to provide that information unless doing so proves impossible or would involve a disproportionate effort. A consumers right to request required information beyond the 12-month period, and a businesss obligation to provide that information, shall only apply to personal information collected on or after January 1, 2022. Nothing in this subparagraph shall require a business to keep personal information for any length of time.

(3)(A)A business that receives a verifiable consumer request pursuant to Section 1798.110 or 1798.115 shall disclose any personal information it has collected about a consumer, directly or indirectly, including through or by a service provider or contractor, to the consumer. A service provider or contractor shall not be required to comply with a verifiable consumer request received directly from a consumer or a consumers authorized agent, pursuant to Section 1798.110 or 1798.115, to the extent that the service provider or contractor has collected personal information about the consumer in its role as a service provider or contractor. A service provider or contractor shall provide assistance to a business with which it has a contractual relationship with respect to the business response to a verifiable consumer request, including, but not limited to, by providing to the business the consumers personal information in the service provider or contractors possession, which the service provider or contractor obtained as a result of providing services to the business, and by correcting inaccurate information or by enabling the business to do the same. A service provider or contractor that collects personal information pursuant to a written contract with a business shall be required to assist the business through appropriate technical and organizational measures in complying with the requirements of subdivisions (d) to (f), inclusive, of Section 1798.100, taking into account the nature of the processing.

(B)For purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 1798.110:

(i)To identify the consumer, associate the information provided by the consumer in the verifiable consumer request to any personal information previously collected by the business about the consumer.

(ii)Identify by category or categories the personal information collected about the consumer for the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information collected; the categories of sources from which the consumers personal information was collected; the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing the consumers personal information; and the categories of third parties to whom the business discloses the consumers personal information.

(iii)Provide the specific pieces of personal information obtained from the consumer in a format that is easily understandable to the average consumer, and to the extent technically feasible, in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format that may also be transmitted to another entity at the consumers request without hindrance. Specific pieces of information do not include data generated to help ensure security and integrity or as prescribed by regulation. Personal information is not considered to have been disclosed by a business when a consumer instructs a business to transfer the consumers personal information from one business to another in the context of switching services.

(4)For purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 1798.115:

(A)Identify the consumer and associate the information provided by the consumer in the verifiable consumer request to any personal information previously collected by the business about the consumer.

(B)Identify by category or categories the personal information of the consumer that the business sold or shared during the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information, and provide the categories of third parties to whom the consumers personal information was sold or shared during the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information sold or shared. The business shall disclose the information in a list that is separate from a list generated for the purposes of subparagraph (C).

(C)Identify by category or categories the personal information of the consumer that the business disclosed for a business purpose during the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information, and provide the categories of persons to whom the consumers personal information was disclosed for a business purpose during the applicable period of time by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information disclosed. The business shall disclose the information in a list that is separate from a list generated for the purposes of subparagraph (B).

(5)Disclose the following information in its online privacy policy or policies if the business has an online privacy policy or policies and in any California-specific description of consumers privacy rights, or if the business does not maintain those policies, on its internet website, and update that information at least once every 12 months:

(A)A description of a consumers rights pursuant to Sections 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, and 1798.125 and two or more designated methods for submitting requests, except as provided in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a).

(B)For purposes of subdivision (c) of Section 1798.110:

(i)A list of the categories of personal information it has collected about consumers in the preceding 12 months by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describe the personal information collected.

(ii)The categories of sources from which consumers personal information is collected.

(iii)The business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing consumers personal information.

(iv)The categories of third parties to whom the business discloses consumers personal information.

(C)For purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 1798.115, two separate lists:

(i)A list of the categories of personal information it has sold or shared about consumers in the preceding 12 months by reference to the enumerated category or categories in subdivision (c) that most closely describe the personal information sold or shared, or if the business has not sold or shared consumers personal information in the preceding 12 months, the business shall prominently disclose that fact in its privacy policy.

(ii)A list of the categories of personal information it has disclosed about consumers for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months by reference to the enumerated category in subdivision (c) that most closely describes the personal information disclosed, or if the business has not disclosed consumers personal information for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months, the business shall disclose that fact.

(6)Ensure that all individuals responsible for handling consumer inquiries about the business privacy practices or the business compliance with this title are informed of all requirements in Sections 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, 1798.125, and this section, and how to direct consumers to exercise their rights under those sections.

(7)Use any personal information collected from the consumer in connection with the business verification of the consumers request solely for the purposes of verification and shall not further disclose the personal information, retain it longer than necessary for purposes of verification, or use it for unrelated purposes.

(b)A business is not obligated to provide the information required by Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115 to the same consumer more than twice in a 12-month period.

(c)The categories of personal information required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 1798.100, 1798.110, and 1798.115 shall follow the definitions of personal information and sensitive personal information in Section 1798.140 by describing the categories of personal information using the specific terms set forth in subparagraphs (A) to (K), inclusive, of paragraph (1) of subdivision (v) (x) of Section 1798.140 and by describing the categories of sensitive personal information using the specific terms set forth in paragraphs (1) to (9), inclusive, of subdivision (ae) (ag) of Section 1798.140.

Definitions

For purposes of this title:

(a)Advertising and marketing means a communication by a business or a person acting on the business behalf in any medium intended to induce a consumer to obtain goods, services, or employment.

(b)Aggregate consumer information means information that relates to a group or category of consumers, from which individual consumer identities have been removed, that is not linked or reasonably linkable to any consumer or household, including via a device. Aggregate consumer information does not mean one or more individual consumer records that have been deidentified.

(d)Biometric information means an individuals physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics, including information pertaining to an individuals deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), that is used or is intended to be used singly or in combination with each other or with other identifying data, to establish individual identity. Biometric information includes, but is not limited to, imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, face, hand, palm, vein patterns, and voice recordings, from which an identifier template, such as a faceprint, a minutiae template, or a voiceprint, can be extracted, and keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information.

(e)Business means:

(1)A sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, association, or other legal entity that is organized or operated for the profit or financial benefit of its shareholders or other owners, that collects consumers personal information, or on the behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers personal information, that does business in the State of California, and that satisfies one or more of the following thresholds:

(A)As of January 1 of the calendar year, had annual gross revenues in excess of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) in the preceding calendar year, as adjusted pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185.

(B)Alone or in combination, annually buys, sells, or shares the personal information of 100,000 or more consumers or households.

(C)Derives 50 percent or more of its annual revenues from selling or sharing consumers personal information.

(2)Any entity that controls or is controlled by a business, as defined in paragraph (1), and that shares common branding with the business and with whom the business shares consumers personal information. Control or controlled means ownership of, or the power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a business; control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors, or of individuals exercising similar functions; or the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management of a company. Common branding means a shared name, servicemark, or trademark that the average consumer would understand that two or more entities are commonly owned.

(3)A joint venture or partnership composed of businesses in which each business has at least a 40 percent interest. For purposes of this title, the joint venture or partnership and each business that composes the joint venture or partnership shall separately be considered a single business, except that personal information in the possession of each business and disclosed to the joint venture or partnership shall not be shared with the other business.

(4)A person that does business in California, that is not covered by paragraph (1), (2), or (3), and that voluntarily certifies to the California Privacy Protection Agency that it is in compliance with, and agrees to be bound by, this title.

(f)Business purpose means the use of personal information for the business operational purposes, or other notified purposes, or for the service provider or contractors operational purposes, as defined by regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (11) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, provided that the use of personal information shall be reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the purpose for which the personal information was collected or processed or for another purpose that is compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected. Business purposes are:

(1)Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards.

(2)Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumers personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes.

(3)Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

(4)Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, nonpersonalized advertising shown as part of a consumers current interaction with the business, provided that the consumers personal information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about the consumer or otherwise alter the consumers experience outside the current interaction with the business.

(5)Performing services on behalf of the business, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on behalf of the business.

(6)Providing advertising and marketing services, except for cross-context behavioral advertising, to the consumer provided that, for the purpose of advertising and marketing, a service provider or contractor shall not combine the personal information of opted-out consumers that the service provider or contractor receives from, or on behalf of, the business with personal information that the service provider or contractor receives from, or on behalf of, another person or persons or collects from its own interaction with consumers.

(7)Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration.

(8)Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business.

(g)Collects, collected, or collection means buying, renting, gathering, obtaining, receiving, or accessing any personal information pertaining to a consumer by any means. This includes receiving information from the consumer, either actively or passively, or by observing the consumers behavior.

(h)Commercial purposes means to advance a persons commercial or economic interests, such as by inducing another person to buy, rent, lease, join, subscribe to, provide, or exchange products, goods, property, information, or services, or enabling or effecting, directly or indirectly, a commercial transaction.

(i)Consent means any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the consumers wishes by which the consumer, or the consumers legal guardian, a person who has power of attorney, or a person acting as a conservator for the consumer, including by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal information relating to the consumer for a narrowly defined particular purpose. Acceptance of a general or broad terms of use, or similar document, that contains descriptions of personal information processing along with other, unrelated information, does not constitute consent. Hovering over, muting, pausing, or closing a given piece of content does not constitute consent. Likewise, agreement obtained through use of dark patterns does not constitute consent.

(j)Consumer means a natural person who is a California resident, as defined in Section 17014 of Title 18 of the California Code of Regulations, as that section read on September 1, 2017, however identified, including by any unique identifier.

(k)(1)Contractor means a person to whom the business makes available a consumers personal information for a business purpose, pursuant to a written contract with the business, provided that the contract:

(A)Prohibits the contractor from:

(i)Selling or sharing the personal information.

(ii)Retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for any purpose other than for the business purposes specified in the contract, including retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for a commercial purpose other than the business purposes specified in the contract, or as otherwise permitted by this title.

(iii)Retaining, using, or disclosing the information outside of the direct business relationship between the contractor and the business.

(iv)Combining the personal information that the contractor receives pursuant to a written contract with the business with personal information that it receives from or on behalf of another person or persons, or collects from its own interaction with the consumer, provided that the contractor may combine personal information to perform any business purpose as defined in regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (10) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, except as provided for in paragraph (6) of subdivision (e) (f) and in regulations adopted by the California Privacy Protection Agency.

(B)Includes a certification made by the contractor that the contractor understands the restrictions in subparagraph (A) and will comply with them.

(C)Permits, subject to agreement with the contractor, the business to monitor the contractors compliance with the contract through measures, including, but not limited to, ongoing manual reviews and automated scans and regular assessments, audits, or other technical and operational testing at least once every 12 months.

(2)If a contractor engages any other person to assist it in processing personal information for a business purpose on behalf of the business, or if any other person engaged by the contractor engages another person to assist in processing personal information for that business purpose, it shall notify the business of that engagement, and the engagement shall be pursuant to a written contract binding the other person to observe all the requirements set forth in paragraph (1).

(l)Cross-context behavioral advertising means the targeting of advertising to a consumer based on the consumers personal information obtained from the consumers activity across businesses, distinctly-branded websites, applications, or services, other than the business, distinctly-branded website, application, or service with which the consumer intentionally interacts.

(m)Dark pattern means a user interface designed or manipulated with the substantial effect of subverting or impairing user autonomy, decisionmaking, or choice, as further defined by regulation.

(n)Deidentified means information that cannot reasonably be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular consumer provided that the business that possesses the information:

(1)Takes reasonable measures to ensure that the information cannot be associated with a consumer or household.

(2)Publicly commits to maintain and use the information in deidentified form and not to attempt to reidentify the information, except that the business may attempt to reidentify the information solely for the purpose of determining whether its deidentification processes satisfy the requirements of this subdivision.

(3)Contractually obligates any recipients of the information to comply with all provisions of this subdivision.

(o)Designated methods for submitting requests means a mailing address, email address, internet web page, internet web portal, toll-free telephone number, or other applicable contact information, whereby consumers may submit a request or direction under this title, and any new, consumer-friendly means of contacting a business, as approved by the Attorney General pursuant to Section 1798.185.

(q)Device means any physical object that is capable of connecting to the Internet, directly or indirectly, or to another device.

(r)Homepage means the introductory page of an internet website and any internet web page where personal information is collected. In the case of an online service, such as a mobile application, homepage means the applications platform page or download page, a link within the application, such as from the application configuration, About, Information, or settings page, and any other location that allows consumers to review the notices required by this title, including, but not limited to, before downloading the application.

(s)Household means a group, however identified, of consumers who cohabitate with one another at the same residential address and share use of common devices or services.

(t)Infer or inference means the derivation of information, data, assumptions, or conclusions from facts, evidence, or another source of information or data.

(u)Intentionally interacts means when the consumer intends to interact with a person, or disclose personal information to a person, via one or more deliberate interactions, including visiting the persons website or purchasing a good or service from the person. Hovering over, muting, pausing, or closing a given piece of content does not constitute a consumers intent to interact with a person.

(v)Nonpersonalized advertising means advertising and marketing that is based solely on a consumers personal information derived from the consumers current interaction with the business with the exception of the consumers precise geolocation.

(w)Person means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, and any other organization or group of persons acting in concert.

(x)(1)Personal information means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. Personal information includes, but is not limited to, the following if it identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could be reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:

(A)Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, drivers license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

(B)Any personal information described in subdivision (e) of Section 1798.80.

(C)Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law.

(D)Commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

(E)Biometric information.

(F)Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumers interaction with an internet website application, or advertisement.

(G)Geolocation data.

(H)Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

(I)Professional or employment-related information.

(J)Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g; 34 C.F.R. Part 99).

(K)Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in this subdivision to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumers preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

(L)Sensitive personal information.

(2)Personal information does not include publicly available information or lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern. For purposes of this paragraph, publicly available means: information that is lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records, or information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public by the consumer or from widely distributed media; or information made available by a person to whom the consumer has disclosed the information if the consumer has not restricted the information to a specific audience. Publicly available does not mean biometric information collected by a business about a consumer without the consumers knowledge.

(3)Personal information does not include consumer information that is deidentified or aggregate consumer information.

(y)Precise geolocation means any data that is derived from a device and that is used or intended to be used to locate a consumer within a geographic area that is equal to or less than the area of a circle with a radius of 1,850 feet, except as prescribed by regulations.

(z)Probabilistic identifier means the identification of a consumer or a consumers device to a degree of certainty of more probable than not based on any categories of personal information included in, or similar to, the categories enumerated in the definition of personal information.

(aa)Processing means any operation or set of operations that are performed on personal information or on sets of personal information, whether or not by automated means.

(ab)Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal information, as further defined by regulations pursuant to paragraph (16) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person and in particular to analyze or predict aspects concerning that natural persons performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements.

(ac)Pseudonymize or Pseudonymization means the processing of personal information in a manner that renders the personal information no longer attributable to a specific consumer without the use of additional information, provided that the additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal information is not attributed to an identified or identifiable consumer.

(ad)Research means scientific analysis, systematic study, and observation, including basic research or applied research that is designed to develop or contribute to public or scientific knowledge and that adheres or otherwise conforms to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, including, but not limited to, studies conducted in the public interest in the area of public health. Research with personal information that may have been collected from a consumer in the course of the consumers interactions with a business service or device for other purposes shall be:

(1)Compatible with the business purpose for which the personal information was collected.

(2)Subsequently pseudonymized and deidentified, or deidentified and in the aggregate, such that the information cannot reasonably identify, relate to, describe, be capable of being associated with, or be linked, directly or indirectly, to a particular consumer, by a business.

(3)Made subject to technical safeguards that prohibit reidentification of the consumer to whom the information may pertain, other than as needed to support the research.

(4)Subject to business processes that specifically prohibit reidentification of the information, other than as needed to support the research.

(5)Made subject to business processes to prevent inadvertent release of deidentified information.

(6)Protected from any reidentification attempts.

(7)Used solely for research purposes that are compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected.

(8)Subjected by the business conducting the research to additional security controls that limit access to the research data to only those individuals as are necessary to carry out the research purpose.

(ae)Security and integrity means the ability of:

(1)Networks or information systems to detect security incidents that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal information.

(2)Businesses to detect security incidents, resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions and to help prosecute those responsible for those actions.

(3)Businesses to ensure the physical safety of natural persons.

(af)(1)Sell, selling, sale, or sold, means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumers personal information by the business to a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

(2)For purposes of this title, a business does not sell personal information when:

(A)A consumer uses or directs the business to intentionally:

(i)Disclose personal information.

(ii)Interact with one or more third parties.

(B)The business uses or shares an identifier for a consumer who has opted out of the sale of the consumers personal information or limited the use of the consumers sensitive personal information for the purposes of alerting persons that the consumer has opted out of the sale of the consumers personal information or limited the use of the consumers sensitive personal information.

(C)The business transfers to a third party the personal information of a consumer as an asset that is part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which the third party assumes control of all or part of the business, provided that information is used or shared consistently with this title. If a third party materially alters how it uses or shares the personal information of a consumer in a manner that is materially inconsistent with the promises made at the time of collection, it shall provide prior notice of the new or changed practice to the consumer. The notice shall be sufficiently prominent and robust to ensure that existing consumers can easily exercise their choices consistently with this title. This subparagraph does not authorize a business to make material, retroactive privacy policy changes or make other changes in their privacy policy in a manner that would violate the Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code).

(ag)Sensitive personal information means:

(1)Personal information that reveals:

(A)A consumers social security, drivers license, state identification card, or passport number.

(B)A consumers account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account.

(C)A consumers precise geolocation.

(D)A consumers racial or ethnic origin, citizenship or immigration status, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership.

(E)The contents of a consumers mail, email, and text messages unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication.

(F)A consumers genetic data.

(2)(A)The processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer.

(B)Personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumers health.

(C)Personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumers sex life or sexual orientation.

(3)Sensitive personal information that is publicly available pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (v) (x) shall not be considered sensitive personal information or personal information.

(ah)Service or services means work, labor, and services, including services furnished in connection with the sale or repair of goods.

(ai)(1)Service provider means a person that processes personal information on behalf of a business and that receives from or on behalf of the business consumers personal information for a business purpose pursuant to a written contract, provided that the contract prohibits the person from:

(A)Selling or sharing the personal information.

(B)Retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for any purpose other than for the business purposes specified in the contract for the business, including retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for a commercial purpose other than the business purposes specified in the contract with the business, or as otherwise permitted by this title.

(C)Retaining, using, or disclosing the information outside of the direct business relationship between the service provider and the business.

(D)Combining the personal information that the service provider receives from, or on behalf of, the business with personal information that it receives from, or on behalf of, another person or persons, or collects from its own interaction with the consumer, provided that the service provider may combine personal information to perform any business purpose as defined in regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (10) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, except as provided for in paragraph (6) of subdivision (e) (f) of this section and in regulations adopted by the California Privacy Protection Agency. The contract may, subject to agreement with the service provider, permit the business to monitor the service providers compliance with the contract through measures, including, but not limited to, ongoing manual reviews and automated scans and regular assessments, audits, or other technical and operational testing at least once every 12 months.

(2)If a service provider engages any other person to assist it in processing personal information for a business purpose on behalf of the business, or if any other person engaged by the service provider engages another person to assist in processing personal information for that business purpose, it shall notify the business of that engagement, and the engagement shall be pursuant to a written contract binding the other person to observe all the requirements set forth in paragraph (1).

(aj)(1)Share, shared, or sharing means sharing, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumers personal information by the business to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not for monetary or other valuable consideration, including transactions between a business and a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising for the benefit of a business in which no money is exchanged.

(2)For purposes of this title, a business does not share personal information when:

(A)A consumer uses or directs the business to intentionally disclose personal information or intentionally interact with one or more third parties.

(B)The business uses or shares an identifier for a consumer who has opted out of the sharing of the consumers personal information or limited the use of the consumers sensitive personal information for the purposes of alerting persons that the consumer has opted out of the sharing of the consumers personal information or limited the use of the consumers sensitive personal information.

(C)The business transfers to a third party the personal information of a consumer as an asset that is part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which the third party assumes control of all or part of the business, provided that information is used or shared consistently with this title. If a third party materially alters how it uses or shares the personal information of a consumer in a manner that is materially inconsistent with the promises made at the time of collection, it shall provide prior notice of the new or changed practice to the consumer. The notice shall be sufficiently prominent and robust to ensure that existing consumers can easily exercise their choices consistently with this title. This subparagraph does not authorize a business to make material, retroactive privacy policy changes or make other changes in their privacy policy in a manner that would violate the Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code).

(ak)Third party means a person who is not any of the following:

(1)The business with whom the consumer intentionally interacts and that collects personal information from the consumer as part of the consumers current interaction with the business under this title.

(2)A service provider to the business.

(3)A contractor.

(am)Unique identifier or unique personal identifier means a persistent identifier that can be used to recognize a consumer, a family, or a device that is linked to a consumer or family, over time and across different services, including, but not limited to, a device identifier; an Internet Protocol address; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers, or similar technology; customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias; telephone numbers, or other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers that can be used to identify a particular consumer or device that is linked to a consumer or family. For purposes of this subdivision, family means a custodial parent or guardian and any children under 18 years of age over which the parent or guardian has custody.

(an)Verifiable consumer request means a request that is made by a consumer, by a consumer on behalf of the consumers minor child, by a natural person or a person registered with the Secretary of State, authorized by the consumer to act on the consumers behalf, or by a person who has power of attorney or is acting as a conservator for the consumer, and that the business can verify, using commercially reasonable methods, pursuant to regulations adopted by the Attorney General pursuant to paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185 to be the consumer about whom the business has collected personal information. A business is not obligated to provide information to the consumer pursuant to Sections 1798.110 and 1798.115, to delete personal information pursuant to Section 1798.105, or to correct inaccurate personal information pursuant to Section 1798.106, if the business cannot verify, pursuant to this subdivision and regulations adopted by the Attorney General pursuant to paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185, that the consumer making the request is the consumer about whom the business has collected information or is a person authorized by the consumer to act on such consumers behalf.

Exemptions

(a)(1)The obligations imposed on businesses by this title shall not restrict a businesss ability to:

(A)Comply with federal, state, or local laws or comply with a court order or subpoena to provide information.

(B)Comply with a civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, or local authorities. Law enforcement agencies, including police and sheriffs departments, may direct a business pursuant to a law enforcement agency-approved investigation with an active case number not to delete a consumers personal information, and, upon receipt of that direction, a business shall not delete the personal information for 90 days in order to allow the law enforcement agency to obtain a court-issued subpoena, order, or warrant to obtain a consumers personal information. For good cause and only to the extent necessary for investigatory purposes, a law enforcement agency may direct a business not to delete the consumers personal information for additional 90-day periods. A business that has received direction from a law enforcement agency not to delete the personal information of a consumer who has requested deletion of the consumers personal information shall not use the consumers personal information for any purpose other than retaining it to produce to law enforcement in response to a court-issued subpoena, order, or warrant unless the consumers deletion request is subject to an exemption from deletion under this title.

(C)Cooperate with law enforcement agencies concerning conduct or activity that the business, service provider, or third party reasonably and in good faith believes may violate federal, state, or local law.

(D)(i)Cooperate with a government agency request for emergency access to a consumers personal information if a natural person is at risk or danger of death or serious physical injury provided that:

(I)The request is approved by a high-ranking agency officer for emergency access to a consumers personal information.

(II)The request is based on the agencys good faith determination that it has a lawful basis to access the information on a nonemergency basis.

(III)The agency agrees to petition a court for an appropriate order within three days and to destroy the information if that order is not granted.

(ii)For purposes of this subparagraph, a consumer accessing, procuring, or searching for services regarding contraception, pregnancy care, and perinatal care, including, but not limited to, abortion services, shall not constitute a natural person being at risk or danger of death or serious physical injury.

(E)Exercise or defend legal claims.

(F)Collect, use, retain, sell, share, or disclose consumers personal information that is deidentified or aggregate consumer information.

(G)Collect, sell, or share a consumers personal information if every aspect of that commercial conduct takes place wholly outside of California. For purposes of this title, commercial conduct takes place wholly outside of California if the business collected that information while the consumer was outside of California, no part of the sale of the consumers personal information occurred in California, and no personal information collected while the consumer was in California is sold. This paragraph shall not prohibit a business from storing, including on a device, personal information about a consumer when the consumer is in California and then collecting that personal information when the consumer and stored personal information is outside of California.

(2)(A)This subdivision shall not apply if the consumers personal information contains information related to accessing, procuring, or searching for services regarding contraception, pregnancy care, and perinatal care, including, but not limited to, abortion services.

(B)This paragraph does not alter the use of aggregated or deidentified personal information consistent with a business purpose as defined in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (7), or (8) of subdivision (e) (f) of Section 1798.140, provided that the personal information is only retained in aggregated and deidentified form and is not sold or shared.

(C)This paragraph does not alter the duty of a business to preserve or retain evidence pursuant to California or federal law in an ongoing civil proceeding.

(b)The obligations imposed on businesses by Sections 1798.110, 1798.115, 1798.120, 1798.121, 1798.130, and 1798.135 shall not apply where compliance by the business with the title would violate an evidentiary privilege under California law and shall not prevent a business from providing the personal information of a consumer to a person covered by an evidentiary privilege under California law as part of a privileged communication.

(c)(1)This title shall not apply to any of the following:

(A)Medical information governed by the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 56) of Division 1) or protected health information that is collected by a covered entity or business associate governed by the privacy, security, and breach notification rules issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Parts 160 and 164 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, established pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-191) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (Public Law 111-5).

(B)A provider of health care governed by the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 56) of Division 1) or a covered entity governed by the privacy, security, and breach notification rules issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Parts 160 and 164 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, established pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-191), to the extent the provider or covered entity maintains patient information in the same manner as medical information or protected health information as described in subparagraph (A) of this section.

(C)Personal information collected as part of a clinical trial or other biomedical research study subject to, or conducted in accordance with, the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, also known as the Common Rule, pursuant to good clinical practice guidelines issued by the International Council for Harmonisation or pursuant to human subject protection requirements of the United States Food and Drug Administration, provided that the information is not sold or shared in a manner not permitted by this subparagraph, and, if it is inconsistent, that participants be informed of that use and provide consent.

(2)For purposes of this subdivision, the definitions of medical information and provider of health care in Section 56.05 shall apply and the definitions of business associate, covered entity, and protected health information in Section 160.103 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations shall apply.

(d)(1)This title shall not apply to an activity involving the collection, maintenance, disclosure, sale, communication, or use of any personal information bearing on a consumers creditworthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living by a consumer reporting agency, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 1681a of Title 15 of the United States Code, by a furnisher of information, as set forth in Section 1681s-2 of Title 15 of the United States Code, who provides information for use in a consumer report, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 1681a of Title 15 of the United States Code, and by a user of a consumer report as set forth in Section 1681b of Title 15 of the United States Code.

(2)Paragraph (1) shall apply only to the extent that such activity involving the collection, maintenance, disclosure, sale, communication, or use of such information by that agency, furnisher, or user is subject to regulation under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Section 1681 et seq., Title 15 of the United States Code and the information is not collected, maintained, used, communicated, disclosed, or sold except as authorized by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

(3)This subdivision shall not apply to Section 1798.150.

(e)This title shall not apply to personal information collected, processed, sold, or disclosed subject to the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Public Law 106-102), and implementing regulations, or the California Financial Information Privacy Act (Division 1.4 (commencing with Section 4050) of the Financial Code), or the federal Farm Credit Act of 1971 (as amended in 12 U.S.C. 2001-2279cc and implementing regulations, 12 C.F.R. 600, et seq.). This subdivision shall not apply to Section 1798.150.

(f)This title shall not apply to personal information collected, processed, sold, or disclosed pursuant to the Drivers Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 2721 et seq.). This subdivision shall not apply to Section 1798.150.

(g)(1)Section 1798.120 shall not apply to vehicle information or ownership information retained or shared between a new motor vehicle dealer, as defined in Section 426 of the Vehicle Code, and the vehicles manufacturer, as defined in Section 672 of the Vehicle Code, if the vehicle information or ownership information is shared for the purpose of effectuating, or in anticipation of effectuating, a vehicle repair covered by a vehicle warranty or a recall conducted pursuant to Sections 30118 to 30120, inclusive, of Title 49 of the United States Code, provided that the new motor vehicle dealer or vehicle manufacturer with which that vehicle information or ownership information is shared does not sell, share, or use that information for any other purpose.

(2)Section 1798.120 shall not apply to vessel information or ownership information retained or shared between a vessel dealer and the vessels manufacturer, as defined in Section 651 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, if the vessel information or ownership information is shared for the purpose of effectuating, or in anticipation of effectuating, a vessel repair covered by a vessel warranty or a recall conducted pursuant to Section 4310 of Title 46 of the United States Code, provided that the vessel dealer or vessel manufacturer with which that vessel information or ownership information is shared does not sell, share, or use that information for any other purpose.

(3)For purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Ownership information means the name or names of the registered owner or owners and the contact information for the owner or owners.

(B)Vehicle information means the vehicle information number, make, model, year, and odometer reading.

(C)Vessel dealer means a person who is engaged, wholly or in part, in the business of selling or offering for sale, buying or taking in trade for the purpose of resale, or exchanging, any vessel or vessels, as defined in Section 651 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, and receives or expects to receive money, profit, or any other thing of value.

(D)Vessel information means the hull identification number, model, year, month and year of production, and information describing any of the following equipment as shipped, transferred, or sold from the place of manufacture, including all attached parts and accessories:

(i)An inboard engine.

(ii)An outboard engine.

(iii)A stern drive unit.

(iv)An inflatable personal floatation device approved under Section 160.076 of Title 46 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

(h)Notwithstanding a businesss obligations to respond to and honor consumer rights requests pursuant to this title:

(1)A time period for a business to respond to a consumer for any verifiable consumer request may be extended by up to a total of 90 days where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests. The business shall inform the consumer of any such extension within 45 days of receipt of the request, together with the reasons for the delay.

(2)If the business does not take action on the request of the consumer, the business shall inform the consumer, without delay and at the latest within the time period permitted of response by this section, of the reasons for not taking action and any rights the consumer may have to appeal the decision to the business.

(3)If requests from a consumer are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character, a business may either charge a reasonable fee, taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested, or refuse to act on the request and notify the consumer of the reason for refusing the request. The business shall bear the burden of demonstrating that any verifiable consumer request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

(i)(1)A business that discloses personal information to a service provider or contractor in compliance with this title shall not be liable under this title if the service provider or contractor receiving the personal information uses it in violation of the restrictions set forth in the title, provided that, at the time of disclosing the personal information, the business does not have actual knowledge, or reason to believe, that the service provider or contractor intends to commit such a violation. A service provider or contractor shall likewise not be liable under this title for the obligations of a business for which it provides services as set forth in this title provided that the service provider or contractor shall be liable for its own violations of this title.

(2)A business that discloses personal information of a consumer, with the exception of consumers who have exercised their right to opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information, consumers who have limited the use or disclosure of their sensitive personal information, and minor consumers who have not opted in to the collection or sale of their personal information, to a third party pursuant to a written contract that requires the third party to provide the same level of protection of the consumers rights under this title as provided by the business shall not be liable under this title if the third party receiving the personal information uses it in violation of the restrictions set forth in this title provided that, at the time of disclosing the personal information, the business does not have actual knowledge, or reason to believe, that the third party intends to commit such a violation.

(j)This title shall not be construed to require a business, service provider, or contractor to:

(1)Reidentify or otherwise link information that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information.

(2)Retain any personal information about a consumer if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about the consumer would not be retained.

(3)Maintain information in identifiable, linkable, or associable form, or collect, obtain, retain, or access any data or technology, in order to be capable of linking or associating a verifiable consumer request with personal information.

(k)The rights afforded to consumers and the obligations imposed on the business in this title shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other natural persons. A verifiable consumer request for specific pieces of personal information pursuant to Section 1798.110, to delete a consumers personal information pursuant to Section 1798.105, or to correct inaccurate personal information pursuant to Section 1798.106, shall not extend to personal information about the consumer that belongs to, or the business maintains on behalf of, another natural person. A business may rely on representations made in a verifiable consumer request as to rights with respect to personal information and is under no legal requirement to seek out other persons that may have or claim to have rights to personal information, and a business is under no legal obligation under this title or any other provision of law to take any action under this title in the event of a dispute between or among persons claiming rights to personal information in the businesss possession.

(l)The rights afforded to consumers and the obligations imposed on any business under this title shall not apply to the extent that they infringe on the noncommercial activities of a person or entity described in subdivision (b) of Section 2 of Article I of the California Constitution.

(m)(1)This title shall not apply to any of the following:

(A)Personal information that is collected by a business about a natural person in the course of the natural person acting as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or independent contractor of, that business to the extent that the natural persons personal information is collected and used by the business solely within the context of the natural persons role or former role as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or an independent contractor of, that business.

(B)Personal information that is collected by a business that is emergency contact information of the natural person acting as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or independent contractor of, that business to the extent that the personal information is collected and used solely within the context of having an emergency contact on file.

(C)Personal information that is necessary for the business to retain to administer benefits for another natural person relating to the natural person acting as a job applicant to, an employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or independent contractor of, that business to the extent that the personal information is collected and used solely within the context of administering those benefits.

(2)For purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Independent contractor means a natural person who provides any service to a business pursuant to a written contract.

(B)Director means a natural person designated in the articles of incorporation as director, or elected by the incorporators and natural persons designated, elected, or appointed by any other name or title to act as directors, and their successors.

(C)Medical staff member means a licensed physician and surgeon, dentist, or podiatrist, licensed pursuant to Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) of the Business and Professions Code and a clinical psychologist as defined in Section 1316.5 of the Health and Safety Code.

(D)Officer means a natural person elected or appointed by the board of directors to manage the daily operations of a corporation, including a chief executive officer, president, secretary, or treasurer.

(E)Owner means a natural person who meets one of the following criteria:

(i)Has ownership of, or the power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a business.

(ii)Has control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors or of individuals exercising similar functions.

(iii)Has the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management of a company.

(3)This subdivision shall not apply to subdivision (a) of Section 1798.100 or Section 1798.150.

(4)This subdivision shall become inoperative on January 1, 2023.

(n)(1)The obligations imposed on businesses by Sections 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, 1798.121, 1798.130, and 1798.135 shall not apply to personal information reflecting a written or verbal communication or a transaction between the business and the consumer, where the consumer is a natural person who acted or is acting as an employee, owner, director, officer, or independent contractor of a company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency and whose communications or transaction with the business occur solely within the context of the business conducting due diligence regarding, or providing or receiving a product or service to or from such company, partnership, sole proprietorship, nonprofit, or government agency.

(2)For purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Independent contractor means a natural person who provides any service to a business pursuant to a written contract.

(B)Director means a natural person designated in the articles of incorporation as such or elected by the incorporators and natural persons designated, elected, or appointed by any other name or title to act as directors, and their successors.

(C)Officer means a natural person elected or appointed by the board of directors to manage the daily operations of a corporation, such as a chief executive officer, president, secretary, or treasurer.

(D)Owner means a natural person who meets one of the following:

(i)Has ownership of, or the power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a business.

(ii)Has control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors or of individuals exercising similar functions.

(iii)Has the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management of a company.

(3)This subdivision shall become inoperative on January 1, 2023.

(o)(1)Sections 1798.105 and 1798.120 shall not apply to a commercial credit reporting agencys collection, processing, sale, or disclosure of business controller information to the extent the commercial credit reporting agency uses the business controller information solely to identify the relationship of a consumer to a business that the consumer owns or contact the consumer only in the consumers role as the owner, director, officer, or management employee of the business.

(2)For the purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Business controller information means the name or names of the owner or owners, director, officer, or management employee of a business and the contact information, including a business title, for the owner or owners, director, officer, or management employee.

(B)Commercial credit reporting agency has the meaning set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 1785.42.

(C)Owner means a natural person that meets one of the following:

(i)Has ownership of, or the power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a business.

(ii)Has control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors or of individuals exercising similar functions.

(iii)Has the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management of a company.

(D)Director means a natural person designated in the articles of incorporation of a business as director, or elected by the incorporators and natural persons designated, elected, or appointed by any other name or title to act as directors, and their successors.

(E)Officer means a natural person elected or appointed by the board of directors of a business to manage the daily operations of a corporation, including a chief executive officer, president, secretary, or treasurer.

(F)Management employee means a natural person whose name and contact information is reported to or collected by a commercial credit reporting agency as the primary manager of a business and used solely within the context of the natural persons role as the primary manager of the business.

(p)The obligations imposed on businesses in Sections 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, and 1798.115 shall not apply to household data.

(q)(1)This title does not require a business to comply with a verifiable consumer request to delete a consumers personal information under Section 1798.105 to the extent the verifiable consumer request applies to a students grades, educational scores, or educational test results that the business holds on behalf of a local educational agency, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 49073.1 of the Education Code, at which the student is currently enrolled. If a business does not comply with a request pursuant to this section, it shall notify the consumer that it is acting pursuant to this exception.

(2)This title does not require, in response to a request pursuant to Section 1798.110, that a business disclose on educational standardized assessment or educational assessment or a consumers specific responses to the educational standardized assessment or educational assessment if consumer access, possession, or control would jeopardize the validity and reliability of that educational standardized assessment or educational assessment. If a business does not comply with a request pursuant to this section, it shall notify the consumer that it is acting pursuant to this exception.

(3)For purposes of this subdivision:

(A)Educational standardized assessment or educational assessment means a standardized or nonstandardized quiz, test, or other assessment used to evaluate students in or for entry to kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, schools, postsecondary institutions, vocational programs, and postgraduate programs that are accredited by an accrediting agency or organization recognized by the State of California or the United States Department of Education, as well as certification and licensure examinations used to determine competency and eligibility to receive certification or licensure from a government agency or government certification body.

(B)Jeopardize the validity and reliability of that educational standardized assessment or educational assessment means releasing information that would provide an advantage to the consumer who has submitted a verifiable consumer request or to another natural person.

(r)Sections 1798.105 and 1798.120 shall not apply to a businesss use, disclosure, or sale of particular pieces of a consumers personal information if the consumer has consented to the businesss use, disclosure, or sale of that information to produce a physical item, including a school yearbook containing the consumers photograph if:

(1)The business has incurred significant expense in reliance on the consumers consent.

(2)Compliance with the consumers request to opt out of the sale of the consumers personal information or to delete the consumers personal information would not be commercially reasonable.

(3)The business complies with the consumers request as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so.

Regulations

(a)On or before July 1, 2020, the Attorney General shall solicit broad public participation and adopt regulations to further the purposes of this title, including, but not limited to, the following areas:

(1)Updating or adding categories of personal information to those enumerated in subdivision (c) of Section 1798.130 and subdivision (v) (x) of Section 1798.140, and updating or adding categories of sensitive personal information to those enumerated in subdivision (ae) (ag) of Section 1798.140 in order to address changes in technology, data collection practices, obstacles to implementation, and privacy concerns.

(2)Updating as needed the definitions of deidentified and unique identifier to address changes in technology, data collection, obstacles to implementation, and privacy concerns, and adding, modifying, or deleting categories to the definition of designated methods for submitting requests to facilitate a consumers ability to obtain information from a business pursuant to Section 1798.130. The authority to update the definition of deidentified shall not apply to deidentification standards set forth in Section 164.514 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, where such information previously was protected health information as defined in Section 160.103 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

(3)Establishing any exceptions necessary to comply with state or federal law, including, but not limited to, those relating to trade secrets and intellectual property rights, within one year of passage of this title and as needed thereafter, with the intention that trade secrets should not be disclosed in response to a verifiable consumer request.

(4)Establishing rules and procedures for the following:

(A)To facilitate and govern the submission of a request by a consumer to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information pursuant to Section 1798.120 and to limit the use of a consumers sensitive personal information pursuant to Section 1798.121 to ensure that consumers have the ability to exercise their choices without undue burden and to prevent business from engaging in deceptive or harassing conduct, including in retaliation against consumers for exercising their rights, while allowing businesses to inform consumers of the consequences of their decision to opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information or to limit the use of their sensitive personal information.

(B)To govern business compliance with a consumers opt-out request.

(C)For the development and use of a recognizable and uniform opt-out logo or button by all businesses to promote consumer awareness of the opportunity to opt out of the sale of personal information.

(5)Adjusting the monetary thresholds, in January of every odd-numbered year to reflect any increase in the Consumer Price Index, in: subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) (e) of Section 1798.140; subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.150; subdivision (a) of Section 1798.155; Section 1798.199.25; and subdivision (a) of Section 1798.199.90.

(6)Establishing rules, procedures, and any exceptions necessary to ensure that the notices and information that businesses are required to provide pursuant to this title are provided in a manner that may be easily understood by the average consumer, are accessible to consumers with disabilities, and are available in the language primarily used to interact with the consumer, including establishing rules and guidelines regarding financial incentives within one year of passage of this title and as needed thereafter.

(7)Establishing rules and procedures to further the purposes of Sections 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, and 1798.115 and to facilitate a consumers or the consumers authorized agents ability to delete personal information, correct inaccurate personal information pursuant to Section 1798.106, or obtain information pursuant to Section 1798.130, with the goal of minimizing the administrative burden on consumers, taking into account available technology, security concerns, and the burden on the business, to govern a businesss determination that a request for information received from a consumer is a verifiable consumer request, including treating a request submitted through a password-protected account maintained by the consumer with the business while the consumer is logged into the account as a verifiable consumer request and providing a mechanism for a consumer who does not maintain an account with the business to request information through the businesss authentication of the consumers identity, within one year of passage of this title and as needed thereafter.

(8)Establishing how often, and under what circumstances, a consumer may request a correction pursuant to Section 1798.106, including standards governing the following:

(A)How a business responds to a request for correction, including exceptions for requests to which a response is impossible or would involve disproportionate effort, and requests for correction of accurate information.

(B)How concerns regarding the accuracy of the information may be resolved.

(C)The steps a business may take to prevent fraud.

(D)If a business rejects a request to correct personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumers health, the right of a consumer to provide a written addendum to the business with respect to any item or statement regarding any such personal information that the consumer believes to be incomplete or incorrect. The addendum shall be limited to 250 words per alleged incomplete or incorrect item and shall clearly indicate in writing that the consumer requests the addendum to be made a part of the consumers record.

(9)Establishing the standard to govern a businesss determination, pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.130, that providing information beyond the 12-month period in a response to a verifiable consumer request is impossible or would involve a disproportionate effort.

(10)Issuing regulations further defining and adding to the business purposes, including other notified purposes, for which businesses, service providers, and contractors may use consumers personal information consistent with consumers expectations, and further defining the business purposes for which service providers and contractors may combine consumers personal information obtained from different sources, except as provided for in paragraph (6) of subdivision (e) (f) of Section 1798.140.

(11)Issuing regulations identifying those business purposes, including other notified purposes, for which service providers and contractors may use consumers personal information received pursuant to a written contract with a business, for the service provider or contractors own business purposes, with the goal of maximizing consumer privacy.

(12)Issuing regulations to further define intentionally interacts, with the goal of maximizing consumer privacy.

(13)Issuing regulations to further define precise geolocation, including if the size defined is not sufficient to protect consumer privacy in sparsely populated areas or when the personal information is used for normal operational purposes, including billing.

(14)Issuing regulations to define the term specific pieces of information obtained from the consumer with the goal of maximizing a consumers right to access relevant personal information while minimizing the delivery of information to a consumer that would not be useful to the consumer, including system log information and other technical data. For delivery of the most sensitive personal information, the regulations may require a higher standard of authentication provided that the agency shall monitor the impact of the higher standard on the right of consumers to obtain their personal information to ensure that the requirements of verification do not result in the unreasonable denial of verifiable consumer requests.

(15)Issuing regulations requiring businesses whose processing of consumers personal information presents significant risk to consumers privacy or security, to:

(A)Perform a cybersecurity audit on an annual basis, including defining the scope of the audit and establishing a process to ensure that audits are thorough and independent. The factors to be considered in determining when processing may result in significant risk to the security of personal information shall include the size and complexity of the business and the nature and scope of processing activities.

(B)Submit to the California Privacy Protection Agency on a regular basis a risk assessment with respect to their processing of personal information, including whether the processing involves sensitive personal information, and identifying and weighing the benefits resulting from the processing to the business, the consumer, other stakeholders, and the public, against the potential risks to the rights of the consumer associated with that processing, with the goal of restricting or prohibiting the processing if the risks to privacy of the consumer outweigh the benefits resulting from processing to the consumer, the business, other stakeholders, and the public. Nothing in this section shall require a business to divulge trade secrets.

(16)Issuing regulations governing access and opt-out rights with respect to businesses use of automated decisionmaking technology, including profiling and requiring businesses response to access requests to include meaningful information about the logic involved in those decisionmaking processes, as well as a description of the likely outcome of the process with respect to the consumer.

(17)Issuing regulations to further define a law enforcement agency-approved investigation for purposes of the exception in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.145.

(18)Issuing regulations to define the scope and process for the exercise of the agencys audit authority, to establish criteria for selection of persons to audit, and to protect consumers personal information from disclosure to an auditor in the absence of a court order, warrant, or subpoena.

(19)(A)Issuing regulations to define the requirements and technical specifications for an opt-out preference signal sent by a platform, technology, or mechanism, to indicate a consumers intent to opt out of the sale or sharing of the consumers personal information and to limit the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information. The requirements and specifications for the opt-out preference signal should be updated from time to time to reflect the means by which consumers interact with businesses, and should:

(i)Ensure that the manufacturer of a platform or browser or device that sends the opt-out preference signal cannot unfairly disadvantage another business.

(ii)Ensure that the opt-out preference signal is consumer-friendly, clearly described, and easy to use by an average consumer and does not require that the consumer provide additional information beyond what is necessary.

(iii)Clearly represent a consumers intent and be free of defaults constraining or presupposing that intent.

(iv)Ensure that the opt-out preference signal does not conflict with other commonly used privacy settings or tools that consumers may employ.

(v)Provide a mechanism for the consumer to selectively consent to a businesss sale of the consumers personal information, or the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information, without affecting the consumers preferences with respect to other businesses or disabling the opt-out preference signal globally.

(vi)State that in the case of a page or setting view that the consumer accesses to set the opt-out preference signal, the consumer should see up to three choices, including:

(I)Global opt out from sale and sharing of personal information, including a direction to limit the use of sensitive personal information.

(II)Choice to Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information.

(III)Choice titled Do Not Sell/Do Not Share My Personal Information for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising.

(B)Issuing regulations to establish technical specifications for an opt-out preference signal that allows the consumer, or the consumers parent or guardian, to specify that the consumer is less than 13 years of age or at least 13 years of age and less than 16 years of age.

(C)Issuing regulations, with the goal of strengthening consumer privacy while considering the legitimate operational interests of businesses, to govern the use or disclosure of a consumers sensitive personal information, notwithstanding the consumers direction to limit the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information, including:

(i)Determining any additional purposes for which a business may use or disclose a consumers sensitive personal information.

(ii)Determining the scope of activities permitted under paragraph (8) of subdivision (e) (f) of Section 1798.140, as authorized by subdivision (a) of Section 1798.121, to ensure that the activities do not involve health-related research.

(iii)Ensuring the functionality of the businesss operations.

(iv)Ensuring that the exemption in subdivision (d) of Section 1798.121 for sensitive personal information applies to information that is collected or processed incidentally, or without the purpose of inferring characteristics about a consumer, while ensuring that businesses do not use the exemption for the purpose of evading consumers rights to limit the use and disclosure of their sensitive personal information under Section 1798.121.

(20)Issuing regulations to govern how a business that has elected to comply with subdivision (b) of Section 1798.135 responds to the opt-out preference signal and provides consumers with the opportunity subsequently to consent to the sale or sharing of their personal information or the use and disclosure of their sensitive personal information for purposes in addition to those authorized by subdivision (a) of Section 1798.121. The regulations should:

(A)Strive to promote competition and consumer choice and be technology neutral.

(B)Ensure that the business does not respond to an opt-out preference signal by:

(i)Intentionally degrading the functionality of the consumer experience.

(ii)Charging the consumer a fee in response to the consumers opt-out preferences.

(iii)Making any products or services not function properly or fully for the consumer, as compared to consumers who do not use the opt-out preference signal.

(iv)Attempting to coerce the consumer to opt in to the sale or sharing of the consumers personal information, or the use or disclosure of the consumers sensitive personal information, by stating or implying that the use of the opt-out preference signal will adversely affect the consumer as compared to consumers who do not use the opt-out preference signal, including stating or implying that the consumer will not be able to use the businesss products or services or that those products or services may not function properly or fully.

(v)Displaying any notification or pop-up in response to the consumers opt-out preference signal.

(C)Ensure that any link to a web page or its supporting content that allows the consumer to consent to opt in:

(i)Is not part of a popup, notice, banner, or other intrusive design that obscures any part of the web page the consumer intended to visit from full view or that interferes with or impedes in any way the consumers experience visiting or browsing the web page or website the consumer intended to visit.

(ii)Does not require or imply that the consumer must click the link to receive full functionality of any products or services, including the website.

(iii)Does not make use of any dark patterns.

(iv)Applies only to the business with which the consumer intends to interact.

(D)Strive to curb coercive or deceptive practices in response to an opt-out preference signal but should not unduly restrict businesses that are trying in good faith to comply with Section 1798.135.

(21)Review existing Insurance Code provisions and regulations relating to consumer privacy, except those relating to insurance rates or pricing, to determine whether any provisions of the Insurance Code provide greater protection to consumers than the provisions of this title. Upon completing its review, the agency shall adopt a regulation that applies only the more protective provisions of this title to insurance companies. For the purpose of clarity, the Insurance Commissioner shall have jurisdiction over insurance rates and pricing.

(22)Harmonizing the regulations governing opt-out mechanisms, notices to consumers, and other operational mechanisms in this title to promote clarity and the functionality of this title for consumers.

(b)The Attorney General may adopt additional regulations as necessary to further the purposes of this title.

(c)The Attorney General shall not bring an enforcement action under this title until six months after the publication of the final regulations issued pursuant to this section or July 1, 2020, whichever is sooner.

(d)Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the timeline for adopting final regulations required by the act adding this subdivision shall be July 1, 2022. Beginning the later of July 1, 2021, or six months after the agency provides notice to the Attorney General that it is prepared to begin rulemaking under this title, the authority assigned to the Attorney General to adopt regulations under this section shall be exercised by the California Privacy Protection Agency. Notwithstanding any other law, civil and administrative enforcement of the provisions of law added or amended by this act shall not commence until July 1, 2023, and shall only apply to violations occurring on or after that date. Enforcement of provisions of law contained in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 amended by this act shall remain in effect and shall be enforceable until the same provisions of this act become enforceable.

The agency shall perform the following functions:

(a)Administer, implement, and enforce through administrative actions this title.

(b)On and after the later of July 1, 2021, or within six months of the agency providing the Attorney General with notice that it is prepared to assume rulemaking responsibilities under this title, adopt, amend, and rescind regulations pursuant to Section 1798.185 to carry out the purposes and provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, including regulations specifying recordkeeping requirements for businesses to ensure compliance with this title.

(c)Through the implementation of this title, protect the fundamental privacy rights of natural persons with respect to the use of their personal information.

(d)Promote public awareness and understanding of the risks, rules, responsibilities, safeguards, and rights in relation to the collection, use, sale, and disclosure of personal information, including the rights of minors with respect to their own information, and provide a public report summarizing the risk assessments filed with the agency pursuant to paragraph (15) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185 while ensuring that data security is not compromised.

(e)Provide guidance to consumers regarding their rights under this title.

(f)Provide guidance to businesses regarding their duties and responsibilities under this title and appoint a Chief Privacy Auditor to conduct audits of businesses to ensure compliance with this title pursuant to regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (18) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185.

(g)Provide technical assistance and advice to the Legislature, upon request, with respect to privacy-related legislation.

(h)Monitor relevant developments relating to the protection of personal information and, in particular, the development of information and communication technologies and commercial practices.

(i)Cooperate with other agencies with jurisdiction over privacy laws and with data processing authorities in California, other states, territories, and countries to ensure consistent application of privacy protections.

(j)Establish a mechanism pursuant to which persons doing business in California that do not meet the definition of business set forth in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subdivision (d) (e) of Section 1798.140 may voluntarily certify that they are in compliance with this title, as set forth in paragraph (4) of subdivision (d) (e) of Section 1798.140, and make a list of those entities available to the public.

(k)Solicit, review, and approve applications for grants to the extent funds are available pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1798.160.

(l)Perform all other acts necessary or appropriate in the exercise of its power, authority, and jurisdiction and seek to balance the goals of strengthening consumer privacy while giving attention to the impact on businesses.

(a)There is hereby established in state government the California Privacy Protection Agency, which is vested with full administrative power, authority, and jurisdiction to implement and enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. The agency shall be governed by a five-member board, including the chairperson. The chairperson and one member of the board shall be appointed by the Governor. The Attorney General, Senate Rules Committee, and Speaker of the Assembly shall each appoint one member. These appointments should shall be made from among Californians with expertise in the areas of privacy, technology, and consumer rights.

(b)The initial appointments to the agency shall be made within 90 days of the effective date of the act adding this section.

Members of the agency board shall:

(a)Have qualifications, experience, and skills, in particular in the areas of privacy and technology, privacy, technology, and consumer rights, required to perform the duties of the agency and exercise its powers.

(b)Maintain the confidentiality of information which that has come to their knowledge in the course of the performance of their tasks or exercise of their powers, except to the extent that disclosure is required by the Public Records Act.

(c)Remain free from external influence, whether direct or indirect, and shall neither seek nor take instructions from another.

(d)Refrain from any action incompatible with their duties and engaging in any incompatible occupation, whether gainful or not, during their term.

(e)Have the right of access to all information made available by the agency to the chairperson.

(f)Be precluded, for a period of one year after leaving office, from accepting employment with a business that was subject to an enforcement action or civil action under this title during the members tenure or during the five-year period preceding the members appointment.

(g)Be precluded for a period of two years after leaving office from acting, for compensation, as an agent or attorney for, or otherwise representing, any other person in a matter pending before the agency if the purpose is to influence an action of the agency.