APA jointly testified with the National Payroll Reporting Consortium before the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Public Forum in February with concerns about protecting payroll and employment data. The CCPA requires that implementing regulations account for compliance conflicts with other federal and state laws and directs the California Attorney General to create exceptions.
The problem lies with the broad and ambiguous definitions of “sale,” “personal information,” and “consumer” in the CCPA, said Pete Isberg, Vice President of Government Relations for ADP and co-chair of APA’s Government Relations Task Force Subcommittee on State and Local Topics, who spoke for both groups. Without clarification, the result is an inconsistent implementation of the law with the potential for a decrease in privacy protections.
The CCPA is intended to grant consumers new rights with respect to the collection of their personal information. A consumer can contact a business and ask what information it collects about the consumer, where it collected the information, and with whom it has shared the information. Consumers also may ask that their personal information be deleted and can opt-out of the sale of their personal information.
APA and NPRC asked the attorney general to eliminate any ambiguity by taking the following steps: