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CPPA board directs staff to pursue three privacy bills, including whistleblower incentives
Summary
The California Privacy Protection Agency Board on Nov. 7 voted unanimously to direct staff to pursue three proposed privacy measures — a whistleblower incentive and protection program, an expanded right‑to‑delete, and requirements for alternative consumer request methods — and to work with legislators on whether to sponsor them.
The California Privacy Protection Agency Board on Nov. 7 voted unanimously to direct staff to take three proposed privacy measures to the Legislature for the 2026 session and to use its discretion to support or sponsor those measures as they develop.
Deputy Director Maureen Mahoney presented staff’s package: a whistleblower award-and-protection program modeled on elements of federal whistleblower systems, an amendment to extend the right to deletion to all personal information a business holds about a consumer (including third‑party data purchases), and a requirement that online‑only…
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