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Major Ambiguities Remain, but Health Care Vendors Should Focus on California Consumer Privacy Act Preparedness
Are you a health care vendor that does business in California? If so—and keep in mind that the concept of “doing business” in California may be broader than you expect—there are new, expansive data privacy requirements that might start keeping you awake at night.
California created waves in the information privacy space with its enactment of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “Act”) last summer. The Act, which will be operative beginning January 1, 2020, was hurriedly enacted to prevent a proposed ballot initiative from going to voters in November 2018. That process created a number of significant ambiguities, which remain present in the Act.