On June 28, the California Legislature passed and the Governor signed into law AB 375, which is sweeping new privacy legislation that will place numerous additional privacy requirements on businesses and give consumers broad, new rights. This legislation, though officially opposed by the business community, was presented by legislators to the industry on June 21 as a “take it or leave it” alternative to the Consumer Privacy Initiative, which would have appeared on the November ballot.
Effective Wednesday, January 1, 2020, the law gives consumers various rights with respect to their personal information collected by businesses—the right to access it, the right to delete it, the right to know what information/categories of information are collected, the right to know whether that information is being sold or shared, the right to stop a business from selling that info and the right to equal service and price. It also contains a private right of action for data breaches and gives enforcement and regulatory powers to the Attorney General.
AB 375 impacts any business with gross annual revenues over $25 million that collects consumers’ personal information. Compliance will consist of new notice and disclosure requirements, privacy policy revisions and limitations on what information can be collected, shared and sold.
Also in California…Gov. Edmund Brown, Jr. (D), announced the re-appointment of public member Ricardo Sanchez, and new appointment of acute care pharmacist Maria Serpa to the Board of Pharmacy.
Also in California…The executive officer of the Board of Pharmacy, Virginia Herold, announced that she will be retiring at the end of the year. Prior to assuming the position in January 2007, she served as assistant executive officer of the Board for 16.5 years and interim executive officer for seven months.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.