In February, I reported here that law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati had launched a software subsidiary, SixFifty, to develop automated tools designed to make legal processes more efficient and affordable for businesses and individuals. Today, it is releasing its first product: SixFifty Privacy, a suite of tools to help businesses comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2020.
“The CCPA is an industry-changing law,” SixFifty President Kimball Dean Parker told me during an advance demonstration. “It fundamentally changes how companies are supposed to treat data and the rights consumers have to protect data.”
LISTEN: LawNext Episode 32: Kimball Parker, Head of Wilson Sonsini’s New Tech Subsidiary SixFifty.
Parker and his team developed SixFifty Privacy based on guidance from lawyers in WSGR’s Privacy and Data Protection practice. The application assists companies with four key components of CCPA compliance:
Documents, enabling companies to generate all required policies and compliance documents. Requests, providing a dashboard through which companies can collect, manage and fulfill consumer requests to delete, access, or restrict sales of their data. Data mapping, to help companies identify how data enters their systems and where it is stored. Training, to provide required training to all employees who interact with consumers or handle consumer information.
Using this platform, a company can lay the foundation for its CCPA compliance within 15 minutes, Parker said.
The application creates a consumer-facing portal branded with the company’s logo.
The application creates a consumer-facing portal through which companies receive requests. The company can brand this with its logo and customize certain features of it. Because the law applies only to California residents, the portal will ask consumers to verify their residency before allowing them to submit a request.
