The General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act set the template that privacy law worldwide now follows. If you do business internationally or serve California residents, you have to comply with both, along with the growing roster of state laws built on CCPA's design. We help you build a compliance program that handles GDPR, CCPA and CPRA, and the broader U.S. privacy patchwork, with attorneys who understand the data systems these rules are written about.
Building a GDPR Framework
GDPR reaches any organization processing the personal data of EU residents, wherever the processing actually happens, which pulls in plenty of U.S. companies with no EU office. We help you establish a lawful basis for each processing activity, stand up data subject rights for access, deletion, correction, and portability, write privacy notices that meet the transparency bar, run data protection impact assessments for high-risk processing, keep records of processing, paper your vendor relationships with data processing agreements, and appoint a data protection officer where the law calls for one.
CCPA and CPRA in Practice
California's laws give consumers real rights over the personal information businesses hold once you cross certain thresholds. We help you handle notice at collection, the rights to know, delete, and opt out of sales, the obligations around do-not-sell and limiting sensitive data, service provider contract terms, and the rule against punishing people who exercise their rights. CPRA went further, creating the California Privacy Protection Agency and adding duties like data minimization and purpose limitation, so real compliance means a working program, not just a refreshed privacy policy.
Keeping Up With State Laws
Following California, states including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and Utah have passed their own privacy laws, with more arriving. They share a structure but diverge on the details that matter: applicability thresholds, opt-in versus opt-out, what counts as sensitive data, and how each is enforced. If you operate nationally, that adds up to a genuine patchwork. We map the differences and help you harmonize them, building baseline practices that meet the strictest applicable rule and layering on jurisdiction-specific measures only where you truly need them.
Data Inventory and Mapping
Compliance under any of these laws depends on knowing what personal data you hold and how it moves. We help you inventory the categories you collect, why you process them, where they live, how long you keep them, and who you share them with, then map the flow through your systems and out to third parties. That foundational work feeds almost everything else: records of processing, privacy notices, impact assessments, and rights fulfillment. The time spent mapping pays off across every compliance task that follows.
Controls and Enforcement Risk
Privacy laws expect appropriate technical and organizational measures, built on risk-based security, privacy by design, data minimization, purpose limitation, and deletion once the data has served its purpose, which takes coordination across legal, IT, and the business. Enforcement is intensifying: GDPR fines have run into the hundreds of millions of euros, state attorneys general are increasingly active, and class action litigation adds private risk. We help you prioritize by exposure and keep documented programs that show good faith and can soften penalties when an issue surfaces.