Friday, November 27, 2020
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As mentioned in Q 223, the CPRA ostensibly expanded the three substantive contractual restrictions recognized within the CCPA by referring to 9 further provisions that needs to be included inside a service supplier settlement by January 1, 2023. Lots of the new necessities, nevertheless, could also be redundant of, or subsumed inside, contractual provisions that have been put in place to fulfill the CCPA.
Within the context of use restrictions, the CCPA required that firms prohibit service suppliers from “utilizing . . . the private info” that they obtained “for any goal” apart from a goal specified within the events settlement.”[1] The CPRA contains the identical prohibition, but in addition states that an settlement with a service supplier ought to (1) specify that private info is being supplied just for a “restricted and specified goal,” [2] (2) allow the enterprise to take cheap steps to cease or remediate unauthorized use of non-public info, [3] (3) grant the enterprise the best to take “cheap and applicable steps” to make sure that a service supplier’s use is according to the settlement, [4] and (4) prohibit a service supplier from combining the enterprise’s private info with private info that it receives from different shoppers. [5]
Lots of the new use-related necessities of the CPRA might exist already inside a service supplier settlement or an information processing addendum. For instance, to the extent that the events’ agreements already establish the use to which information can be put, present the events with cures within the occasion of contractual breach, and prohibit the service supplier from combining information from a number of sources, the settlement might already adjust to the necessities of the CPRA.
[1] Cal. Civil Code § 1798.140(v) (Oct. 2020).
[2] Cal. Civil Code § 1798.100(d)(1).
[3] Cal. Civil Code § 1798.100(d)(5).
[4] Cal. Civil Code § 1798.100(d)(3).
[5] Cal. Civil Code § 1798.140(ag)(1)(A).
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