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Legal and data protection research writer at TermsFeed.
Will Blesch is a versatile writer with experience writing for online consumer publications and news outlets as well as helping companies in high tech, biotech, SaaS, Legal, and the healthcare industries (a few others here and there too) create content and marketing collateral that’s perfect for their relative audiences.
How the CCPA (CPRA) is Similar to COPRA
The Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA) is designed to regulate how organizations can collect, use, and share personal data. Many believe that COPRA borrows many of its key concepts directly from the CCPA's text. However, there are a number of differences. In this article, we'll go over some of COPRA's history,...
Consent Under the CCPA (CPRA)
Like most privacy laws, the California's Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the CPRA has some specific consent requirements. Below, we'll talk about consent under the CCPA (CPRA), what is and isn't required, and then compare and contrast that with Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). What is the CCPA (CPRA)? The...
Parent's Accountability and Child Protection Act
On September 28, 2018, Governor Jerry Brown of California approved Assembly Bill 2511, officially known as the Parent's Accountability and Child Protection Act. The bill became enforceable on January 1, 2020. Let's take a deeper look at the rules and requirements of the Act, as well as what you'll need to do...
CCPA (CPRA) Compliance for Startups
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a robust U.S. privacy law that was amended and expanded by the CPRA. This article will outline the major core requirements of the CCPA (CPRA) and how they affect startups, with practical steps on how you can comply. The Rights of Consumers Covered by the...
Compliantly Using Biometric Data in California
The state of California does not have any law that focuses specifically on the use or protection of biometric data. Instead, California's state legislature passed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) as amended by the CPRA, which defines biometric data as a type of personal information that makes identifying...
Web Scraping Laws
Web scraping is all about acquiring information from somebody else's website. Many companies use third-party services that use various web scraping tools to build databases. These third parties then sell the data they've gathered to those who need various data sets. Legal issues have developed around web scraping because some businesses...