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Are you ready for California’s big new privacy law? Enforcement starts today.

It’s July 1. We are now officially halfway through 2020.  That also means the six-month grace period for California’s major new privacy law is over. The law will now be . Is your business ready? The , or CCPA, is a robust set of digital privacy laws, akin to the EU’s GDPR privacy laws. The…

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It’s July 1. We are now officially halfway through 2020. 

That also means the six-month grace period for California’s major new privacy law is over. The law will now be . Is your business ready?

The , or CCPA, is a robust set of digital privacy laws, akin to the EU’s GDPR privacy laws. The law officially went into effect on January 1 of this year. Businesses were provided, however, with an additional six months to comply with the law without facing any repercussions.  

With the grace period over, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra says the state will now start enforcing the law.

“For sure we will start enforcing on July 1,” Becerra said in an interview with the Washington Post.

According to the , business groups such as the California U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Interactive Advertising Bureau requested another delay to the enforcement of CCPA back in March. The organizations cited the coronavirus pandemic in its request, seeking to give businesses more time to comply. 

Becerra said, however, that he had no intention to further delay enforcement. The California AG pointed out that companies were required to comply when the law went into effect. The grace period was only delaying the law’s enforcement.

“This is good news for consumers.”

“This is good news for consumers,” IntraEdge president Dan

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  • Personal data breach reports rose 22% year-over-year in 2025
  • Ireland has issued some of the GDPR’s biggest fines, including 2025’s biggest
  • Geopolitical tensions, new tech and new laws are all to blame

European regulators handed out over €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) in GDPR-related fines throughout 2025, marking only a small increase compared with the year before despite a sharp rise in data breach notifications.

Data from DLA Piper found regulators handled an average of 443 personal data breach reports every single day from January 28, 2025 onwards, marking a considerable 22% rise compared with 2024. This was also the first year that breach notifications exceeded the 400 mark since GDPR came into force.

But instead of blaming the increase on one single cause, DLA Piper suggests a combination of multiple factors was responsible for the breaches.

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“It seems likely that geopolitical tensions, the abundance of new technologies available to threat actors to launch cyber-attacks, and the raft of new laws including incident notification requirements are all contributing factors,” the report concluded.

However, enforcement remained pretty concentrated with Ireland issuing the most GDPR fines. Ireland was responsible for issuing the highest fine in 2025, hitting TikTok with a €530 million fine. The country also holds the record for the highest-ever GDPR fine – a 2023 €1.2 billion fine against Meta. In total, Ireland has accounting for €4.04 billion in GDPR fines since the act was introduced.

Besides being hit with some of the biggest fines, Big Tech is also a key target in penalties with tech giants accounting for nine of the 10 biggest GDPR fines ever issued.

“The fact that combined GDPR fines held steady at EUR 1.2 billion shows regulators remain highly active, particularly in areas such as information security, international data transfers, transparency and the complex interplay between AI innovation and data protection laws,” DLA Piper UK Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity practice Chair Ross McKean wrote.


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