CCPA

California's landmark privacy law giving residents the right to know what personal information businesses collect about them, to delete it, and to opt out of its sale. It applies to for-profit businesses over certain revenue or data-volume thresholds that handle Californians' data. It kicked off the wave of US state privacy laws that followed.

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