The rule amendments [PDF], just approved by the American state’s Office of Administrative Law, were proposed last October after a set of initial rules for enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) were adopted last August, a month after CCPA enforcement began.
The CCPA amendments:
- Clarify that businesses operating offline need to provide a way to opt-out of data sales.
- Establish a standard Opt-Out Icon for notice and consent of data sales.
- Prohibit designs that impair or subvert a consumer’s choice to opt-out.
- Require that opting out takes no more steps or clicks than opting in.
- Ban confusing language, like the double negative “Don’t not sell my information,” when presenting an opt-out choice.
- Forbid asking for personal information not necessary to carry out an opt-out request.
- Disallow forcing people to scroll through a privacy policy if they’ve opted out or to review reasons not to opt-out.
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