The Minority Corporate Counsel Association kicked off its 2019 Global TEC Forum in San Francisco on Thursday afternoon with a lunchtime plenary session on the compliance complications of California’s privacy law.

Hogan Lovells partner Mark Brennan moderated the discussion on “The California Consumer Privacy Act and What It Means” with four panelists: Ravi Inthiran, the senior director of compliance and privacy officer at Ripple Labs Inc.; Joanne Charles, a Microsoft Corp. privacy and regulatory affairs attorney; Heather Vigil, a shareholder at Littler Mendelson; and Stuart Lee, the chief privacy officer of VMware Inc. Here are five key takeaways from the session.