

If this happens, you can sue for the amount of monetary damages you actually suffered from the breach or “statutory damages” of up to $750 per incident. You can sue a business if your nonencrypted and nonredacted personal information was stolen in a data breach as a result of the business’s failure to maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to protect it. You can only sue a business under the CCPA if there is a data breach, and even then, only under limited circumstances. You cannot sue businesses for most CCPA violations. We will update this information periodically. They are not legal advice, regulatory guidance, or an opinion of the Attorney General.


These FAQs provide general consumer information about the CCPA and how you can exercise your rights under the CCPA. The CCPA applies to many businesses, including data brokers. The right to non-discrimination for exercising their CCPA rights.īusinesses are required to give consumers certain notices e xplaining their privacy practices.The right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information and.The right to delete personal information collected from them (with some exceptions).The right to know about the personal information a business collects about them and how it is used and shared.This landmark law secures new privacy rights for California consumers, including: The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) gives consumers more control over the personal information that businesses collect about them and the CCPA regulations provide guidance on how to implement the law.
