The California Consumer Protection Act’s (CCPA) Impact on eDiscovery Firms

As noted by Anju Khurana, Head of Privacy of the Americas, Bank of New York Mellon, “There are now over 100+ privacy laws in the world and GDPR is driving other countries to adopt similar regulations.” (, Oct. 2019). The California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) which comes into effect on January 1, 2020, is the latest, and very likely not the last. Most data privacy experts anticipate additional states enacting data privacy regulations and think it likely that Congress will eventually do so at the federal level.

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