{"id":277596,"date":"2026-04-20T23:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277596\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:24:23","slug":"california-privacy-agency-seeks-feedback-on-employee-data-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277596\/","title":{"rendered":"California Privacy Agency Seeks Feedback on Employee Data Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California\u2019s privacy agency is seeking input from companies and consumers on whether new rules are needed to regulate the use of employee and job applicants\u2019 personal data.<\/p>\n<p>The California Privacy Protection Agency, or CalPrivacy, also <a href=\"https:\/\/cppa.ca.gov\/regulations\/pdf\/notices_disclosures_employee_data.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asked Monday<\/a> whether new rules could <a data-terminal-id=\"T1AHHUGQ1YX4\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/privacy-ai-fears-jolt-companies-to-rewrite-legal-terms-of-use\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">simplify companies\u2019 privacy policies<\/a>\u2014asking consumers if they find them too confusing or unclear, and businesses if they struggle to describe their practices. <\/p>\n<p>CalPrivacy\u2019s request for preliminary comments on disclosures and employee data is the latest in a swath of early rulemaking activity as the agency also considers regulation on topics including <a data-terminal-id=\"TD70Q3KIJHAT\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/california-privacy-agency-seeks-feedback-on-data-broker-audits\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data broker audits<\/a> and <a data-terminal-id=\"TDKX0ZKGIFQ2\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/companies-prefer-california-opt-out-guidance-instead-of-rules\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opt outs<\/a>. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California\u2019s privacy agency is seeking input from companies and consumers on whether new rules are needed to regulate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,97791,119845],"class_list":["post-277596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-consumer-privacy","tag-workplace-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}