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California Privacy Enforcement Proposals
Coverage from Womble Bond Dickinson, OpenClassActions, and others
California is weighing a whistleblower-based privacy enforcement channel while businesses operate under broad CCPA and CPRA duties and lawmakers debate the limits of tracking-related lawsuits.
AB 2021 would route complaints through the California Privacy Protection Agency, offer awards tied to recovered penalties, and protect participating workers, but it remains a proposal.
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The story has broadened from a proposal for a California privacy whistleblower program into a wider privacy enforcement and litigation context. AB 2021 is still only a proposal, but the current version adds the broader CCPA/CPRA compliance baseline and a separate debate over tracking-related lawsuits.
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