Since the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (CCPA) 2018 passage, employers have been wondering how the law will apply to data collected and maintained about employees. Until now, employment data had been exempted from most of the CCPA’s requirements.
But the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) amendments to the CCPA took effect on Jan. 1, and the legislature failed to extend the employer exemptions, meaning many categories of human resources data will be subject to the requirements of the law.
