Last week was a big one for California’s privacy regime. In a landmark move, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law four bills further protecting Californians’ privacy rights: three strengthen the state’s data breach notification statute and impose restrictions on operators of automated license plate recognition systems (ALPRs), and one requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant for the collection of digital records and location. A.B. 964, S.B. 570, and S.B. 34 California passed the nation’s first data breach notification law in 2003, and it has since incrementally increased the scope of personal data subject to the law and heightened obligations in the event of a breach. Continuing this trend, on October 6, 2015, Governor Brown signed into law three amendments. The first, A.B. 964, adds to the law a definition for the term “encrypted.” According to Assemblyman Ed Chau, the addition is meant to encourage businesses to adopt encryption…
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