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GDPR and CCPA compliance guidance that turns the EU's data protection rules and California's consumer privacy laws, plus the state laws following CCPA's model, into data practices your teams can actually run and defend.

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.

Frequently asked questions

It can, regardless of where you are based. GDPR reaches you if you offer goods or services to people in the EU or monitor their behavior, such as tracking EU visitors on your site. Having no EU office does not get you out of it.

The core rights are knowing what personal data you collect about them, having it deleted, opting out of the sale of their data, and not being discriminated against for exercising those rights. In practice that means you need ways for consumers to make those requests and a process to honor them.

GDPR requires a lawful basis before you process personal data at all and is fairly prescriptive about how. CCPA focuses more on telling consumers what you do and letting them opt out, which leaves you more flexibility. Meeting one does not automatically satisfy the other.

Yes, and building a single program is usually more efficient than running two. The catch is that you still have to identify where the laws diverge and address those points specifically rather than papering over the differences. We design the program so the shared parts are unified and the distinct requirements are handled on their own.

A growing number of states have passed their own broad privacy laws, many modeled on California's approach but with their own twists. If you operate nationally, you need a program that accounts for that patchwork rather than chasing each law one at a time. We help you build to the combined set of requirements.

After the Schrems II decision, Standard Contractual Clauses are the main tool for transferring EU personal data to the US and other countries. They usually have to be paired with an assessment of the destination country's protections and, where needed, added safeguards. We put a compliant transfer framework in place rather than relying on the clauses alone.

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