From left, Ryan O’Leary, research director at IDC, Anna Westfelt, a partner at Gunderson Dettmer Stough, and Richard Arney, co-author of California’s privacy laws, spoke on a panel last week at a summit hosted by DataGrail. Photo courtesy of DataGrail.
Companies are struggling to keep up with an evolving patchwork of laws and regulations around privacy and cybersecurity, even as enforcement actions over data breaches and privacy violations ramp up.
Rick Arney, a co-author of the California Consumer Privacy Act, said last week that the state has allocated a baseline budget of $10 million to ensure that its privacy-rights enforcement has teeth, intentionally matching the amount the Federal Trade Commission spends to regulate privacy for the entire country.
