by Jeremy Feigelson, Avi Gesser, Jim Pastore, Frank Colleluori, Mengyi Xu, Jeffrey Cunard, Luke Dembosky, and Tigist Kassahun
California voters have approved the new California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). The margin was 56% – 44% – comfortable, if significantly tighter than pre-election polling that showed CPRA winning in a landslide. That comes on the heels of the California Attorney General’s release of still more proposed amendments to the regulations for the existing California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). Below we sum up these important changes emerging from Sacramento. We also note some possible Election Day impacts on the privacy law reforms that have been percolating in Washington, D.C.