California’s Attorney General (AG) means business when it comes to enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA. The AG will not pursue enforcement actions until July 1, 2020, which gives organizations extra time to prepare, but if you are required to comply, you must demonstrate an effort to comply before July. Data mapping is the best place to start scaling the regulatory barricades.

When I asked Google for the best lawyer jokes, it found 16,600,000 results in 0.43 seconds.  We love to make fun of lawyers and few people admit to liking lawyers. And yet, according to the American Bar Association, there were 1,338,678 licensed, active attorneys in the United States as of May 2018. Clearly, they must […]

No matter how carefully governments craft new laws, they frequently have unintended consequences. Some of those consequences, such as the cost of compliance, may be expected, but others are very surprising. The Data Subject Access Rights (DSARs) created by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and similar rights created in the California Consumer […]