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In response to the concern of many that the definition of consumer is so broad as to cover employees, a bill has been introduced in California to exclude employees from the scope of CCPA.
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In response to the concern of many that the definition of
consumer is so broad as to cover employees, a bill has been introduced in
California to exclude employees from the scope of CCPA. As those
who have been following CCPA are aware, the definition of
"consumer" is extremely broad. Under the proposal,
amended on March 25 of this year, the definition would specifically
exclude from the definition information collected by a business
"in the course of a person acting as a job applicant,"
employee, contractor, or agent of the business. The carve-out goes
on to clarify that this would hold true only if the
individual's information is used "for purposes compatible
with the context" in which they gave it to the company.
Putting it Into Practice: We are continuing to monitor
this and other developments of CCPA.
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