2021 State Bills California 2021 AB 825

Summary

Amends existing law to protect the privacy and security of computerized data, including personal information, owned or licensed by an agency. This bill adds genetic data to the scope of personal information under the law. Genetic data is defined as any data that results from the analysis of a biological sample of an individual, or from another source enabling equivalent information to be obtained, and concerns genetic material. Genetic material includes, but is not limited to, deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA), ribonucleic acids (RNA), genes, chromosomes, alleles, genomes, alterations or modifications to DNA or RNA, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), uninterpreted data that results from analysis of the biological sample or other source, and any information extrapolated, derived, or inferred therefrom. 10/5/21 Approved by the Governor. Effective 1/1/2022.