Cannaprivacy

The cannabis industry is harvesting another valuable crop: data – and lots of it. The boom of cannabis industry growth across the country is fueled by zeros and ones. California’s cannabis market grew 23-percent in 2019, due not only to farmers and dispensers, but also those who support the industry, including software developers and tech vendors. With this expansion of cannabis-oriented software offerings comes rapidly growing lakes of consumer and industry data, which in turn create questions of security and privacy about that data. Emerging state privacy and data security laws, including the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) and New York SHIELD Act,