Data breaches and technology are evolving at such a rapid rate. In the first half of 2020 alone, data breaches significantly increased by 273% compared to 2019, making privacy laws and regulations such as the CCPA paramount in protecting consumer rights. California is leading the way for privacy compliance, as the fifth-largest global economy, the CCPA forces many companies to address privacy compliance.

Privacy laws and regulations have transformed the relationship between businesses and the personal data they collect from consumers. The CCPA grants privacy rights to California’s consumers, which gives them the right to request access, delete, and modify their data. Granting these rights to individuals can place a significant burden on businesses because they must know exactly what data they hold, where, and in what context, which can be an extremely complex process to unfold.

QuikSense, powered by Truyo, is certified to comply with the FDA’s IEC 80601-2-59-2017 specification, making this a cost-effective and reliable wellness and temperature check option for businesses to leverage in any phase of their COVID-19 strategy. This standalone, contactless temperature sensor can read temperatures quickly and directly from an individual’s wrist with the highest level of temperature accuracy on the market.

On August 31, 2020, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 1281, extending the business-to-business and employee partial moratoria also referred to as employee privacy rights, until the end of 2021. Earlier this year, in a study conducted among privacy professionals by Dimension Data on behalf of Truyo, 49% of businesses were already addressing employee privacy rights in the workplace.

Privacy rights regulation is expanding beyond the GDPR and CCPA with Brazil’s privacy law referred to as the LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais) now effective as of September 18, 2020. While penalties for infractions will be applied on August 1, 2021.

If the CCPA has proved anything in 2020, it was the certainty of uncertainty. Businesses subject to the CCPA have been uncertain about how the CCPA would be interpreted ever since the statute was passed in 2019. After months of proposals and amendments to the CCPA’s regulations, California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra submitted the final regulations of the CCPA to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) on June 1, 2020. The OAL approved the regulations and Mr. Becerra announced on August 14, 2020 that they would take effect immediately.

IntraEdge proudly introduces QuikSense powered by Truyo, a standalone, contactless temperature wrist sensor that was designed with privacy in mind. QuikSense enables your business to conduct contactless and privacy-minded health screenings quickly in the workplace or in well-gathered spaces, such as school campuses, distribution/manufacturing centers, offices, hospitals, etc. Companies now have access to a cost-effective and accurate health-check solution that prioritizes health and privacy.

As technology transforms our lives, consumers are looking to businesses not only for innovation but to manage their data responsibly. All aspects of a privacy program that are exposed to the public, should be handled lawfully and ethically in these ever-changing times. But to address these consumer concerns, companies can also improve the privacy user experience (UX) and extend a greater sense of transparency throughout their digital landscape.

Businesses have endured many challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic and they have voiced their concerns loud and clear around the enforcement phase of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). However, one thing remains clear, the California Attorney General has consistently reaffirmed his intention to begin enforcing regulations under the CCPA on July 1, 2020 and CCPA is now enforceable!

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) officially makes the November ballot for the 2020 elections. After the Californians for Consumer Privacy advocate group filed a Writ of Mandate, it led to a hearing before the Sacramento Superior Court on Friday, June 19, 2020. Judge Change of the Sacramento Superior Court ruled in favor of the advocacy group to ensure the delay of verifying signatures would not stand in the way of CPRA.