Cracking the CCPA Code: What is the Scope of the CCPA’s Private Cause of Action?

The CCPA allows consumers whose information was accessed without their authorization to sue the business that facilitated the breach by failing to adopt appropriate security measures. But the act grants such causes of action only when certain kinds of personal information are disclosed to unauthorized parties as a result of specific types of data security events. MoFo Privacy + Data Security partner Purvi G. Patel explains in a new episode of our “Cracking the CCPA Code” series.

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