Privacy and Cybersecurity Law for Technology Companies

Connected devices, telematics systems, and software-defined vehicles collect, transmit, and process personal data across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously. EU Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) imposes data protection obligations on U.S. companies that process EU residents' data regardless of where the company is incorporated. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA, Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.100 et seq.) and its 2020 CPRA amendments impose similar obligations for California residents. The SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules (17 C.F.R. Parts 229 and 249) impose material incident reporting obligations on public companies with four-business-day timelines.

For technology companies in the automotive, IoT, and connected device sectors, these obligations are not abstract data governance questions. They are embedded in the product architecture from Day One.

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guibert.law Insight

Privacy-by-design is not a compliance strategy — it is a product architecture decision. Technology companies that retrofit GDPR and CCPA compliance onto finished products face substantially higher compliance cost, longer timelines, and greater residual risk than companies that integrate data minimization, consent management, and opt-out infrastructure into the engineering design phase. The legal obligation and the engineering decision are the same decision.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law for Technology Companies

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