On June 21^st, California legislature Democrats reached a tentative agreement with a group of consumer privacy activists spearheading a ballot initiative for heightened consumer privacy protections, in which the activists would withdraw the the existing ballot initiative in exchange for the California legislature passing, and Governor Jerry Brown signing into law, a similar piece of legislation, with some concessions, by June 28^th, the final deadline to withdraw ballot initiatives.  If enacted, the Act would take effect January 1, 2020. Please find the rest of this article in our Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Blog here.