CCPA 11 CCR § 7151
Involve the employees who run the processing in its risk assessment, and record any external parties consulted
Where this comes from
Provision: 11 CCR § 7151
Instrument: California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended by the CPRA) and CPPA regulations
Citation: Cal. Code Regs. tit. 11, § 7151
Text version: Civ. Code as published 2026-10-01; 11 CCR as effective 2026-01-01
Checked against the source: 1 October 2026
Who it applies to
A business under the CCPA (Civ. Code § 1798.140(d)(1)) — all of these:
- California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_CONSUMERS: YES
Meets one or more of the business thresholds — any one of these:
- California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_REVENUE_THRESHOLD: YES
- California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_VOLUME_100K: YES
- California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_SALE_REVENUE_50: YES
Processing that presents significant risk to privacy (11 CCR § 7150(b)) — any one of these:
- California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_SELLS_PI: YES
- California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_SENSITIVE_PI: YES
- California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_ADMT_SIGNIFICANT: YES
- California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_INFERENCE_PROFILING: YES
- California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_TRAINS_ADMT_OR_BIOMETRIC: YES
What engineering work it implies
Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:
- Assessment covers data flows, the risks to the affected group, and likelihood/severity
- Each identified risk has a mitigation mapped to a concrete control or backlog item
- The assessment is dated, has named sign-off, and is scheduled for review
- The assessment is retrievable for regulators on request
- Test: a full walkthrough of the process completes end-to-end
Questions people ask
- Does CCPA 11 CCR § 7151 apply to my service?
- It applies when California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_CONSUMERS: YES; and at least one of: California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_REVENUE_THRESHOLD: YES; California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_VOLUME_100K: YES; California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_SALE_REVENUE_50: YES; and at least one of: California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_SELLS_PI: YES; California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_SENSITIVE_PI: YES; California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_ADMT_SIGNIFICANT: YES; California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_INFERENCE_PROFILING: YES; California CCPA assessed scope Q_CA_TRAINS_ADMT_OR_BIOMETRIC: YES.
- From when does this apply?
- CCPA 11 CCR § 7151 applies from 1 January 2026. Its current status is: in force.
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