Data Digesters Registration Act.

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information that is collected or sold by a business. The CCPA defines various terms for these purposes. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) , approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA and establishes the California Privacy Protection Agency (agency) and vests the agency with full administrative power, authority, and jurisdiction to enforce the CCPA. Existing law requires data brokers to register with the agency, pay a registration fee, and provide certain information, prescribes penalties for failure to register as required by these provisions, requires the agency to create a page on its internet website where this registration information is accessible to the public, and creates a fund known as the "Data Brokers' Registry Fund" that may be used by the agency, upon appropriation, to, among other things, offset the reasonable costs of establishing and maintaining the informational website and the costs incurred by the state courts and the agency in connection with enforcing these provisions, as specified. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes, including by incorporating specified definitions provided in the CPRA. This bill would require data digesters to register with the agency, pay a registration fee, and provide specified information, prescribe penalties for a failure to register as required by these provisions, require the agency to create a page on its internet website where this registration information is accessible to the public, and create a fund known as the "Data Digester Registry Fund" to be administered by the agency to be available for expenditure by the agency, upon appropriation, to offset the reasonable costs of establishing and maintaining the informational website and the costs incurred by the state courts and the agency in connection with enforcing these provisions, as specified. The bill would define various terms and incorporate specified definitions provided in the CPRA for these purposes.