Technical specifications to support US Privacy initiatives, starting with CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act)

The IAB CCPA Compliance Framework is comprised of policy and technical work to support CCPA compliance. These documents are the work product of the IAB Tech Lab’s CCPA/U.S. Privacy Technical Working Group. Policy requirements were developed by a legal affairs group at IAB in the US. The technical specifications documents refer to the guidance within IAB CCPA Compliance Framework Policies.

More information about the Framework is available at https://iab.com/guidelines/ccpa-framework.

Relevant Specification Documents

• US Privacy String
• USP API
• OpenRTB Extension for US Privacy
• Data Deletion Request Handling
• CCPA reference implementation

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