We Get Privacy — Episode 18: Preparing For The CCPA’s New Risk Assessment Rules (Video) – Privacy Protection
Publish Date: 2026-06-25 04:16:00
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CCPA requirements are turning employers’ everyday data activity into potential compliance exposure. In this episode, Jackson Lewis Privacy, AI and Cybersecurity co-leaders Joe Lazzarotti and Damon Silver discuss the CCPA-defined “high-risk” activities that may trigger risk assessment obligations and offer practical guidance for building a workable assessment process, coordinating with vendors and documenting decisions in ways that supports compliance.
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Transcript
Joe Lazzarotti
Principal, Tampa
Welcome to the We Get Privacy Podcast. I’m Joe Lazzarotti, and I’m joined by my co-host, Damon Silver. Damon and I co-lead the Privacy, AI, and Cybersecurity Group at Jackson Lewis, and in that role, we receive a variety of questions every day from our clients, all of which boil down to the core question of how do we handle our data safely? In other words, how do we leverage all of the great things data can do for our organization without running headfirst into a wall of legal risk, and how can we manage that risk without unnecessarily hindering our business operations?
Damon Silver
Principal, New York City
On each episode of the podcast, Joe and I talk through a common question that we’re getting from our clients. We talk it through in the same way that we would with our clients, meaning with a focus on the practical. What are the legal risks? What options are available to manage those risks, and what should we be mindful of from an execution perspective?
Joe, our question for today is: the CCPA had some new regulations come out that were finalized earlier this year. One of the major areas that they tackled was risk assessments. Our question today is, how do we prepare for these new risk assessment regulations? Joe, to get us started, what are the types of activities that would trigger this risk assessment obligation?
Lazzarotti
Glad they gave companies a little bit of time too, as we’ll see, to get up…
