California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Data Privacy, State Attorneys General

State Privacy Enforcement Accelerates, With California Targeting Substantive Compliance and Connecticut Bringing Its First Action

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 7/22/2025

As federal privacy enforcement shows signs of slowing, states are aggressively stepping in to fill the void. On July 1, 2025, the California attorney general (AG) announced a $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media,...more

CCPA Health Check: Key Compliance Lessons from the Healthline Settlement

Venable LLP on 7/18/2025

Over a year after his office’s last privacy enforcement action, on July 1, 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (AG) announced a new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) settlement with Healthline Media LLC...more

States Continue Privacy Law Enforcement Efforts

Wiley Rein LLP on 7/17/2025

Recent enforcement activities in California and Connecticut highlight that states are ready and willing to actively enforce their comprehensive privacy laws. These recent actions – which continue the trend of states ramping...more

California AG focuses on contracts, opt-outs, and consumer disclosures in Healthline settlement

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 7/17/2025

On July 1, 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a $1.55 million proposed settlement order with Healthline Media – the largest California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) settlement to date. The proposed settlement...more

Wiley Consumer Protection Download (July 15, 2025)

Wiley Rein LLP on 7/16/2025

FTC Sends Warning Letters Regarding Potential Noncompliance With “Made in USA” Requirements. On July 8, the FTC sent letters to a flagpole retailer, footwear maker, football equipment company, and personal care products...more

California AG Reaches Landmark $1.55 Million CCPA Settlement with Healthline Over Alleged Privacy Violations

CDF Labor Law LLP on 7/9/2025

On July 1, 2025, the California Attorney General’s (AG) Office announced a record-setting $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media, a prominent provider of health and wellness information and operator of Healthline.com...more

California attorney general’s $1.55 million Healthline CCPA settlement continues cookie focus and signals increasing enforcement

McDermott Will & Emery on 7/9/2025

The California attorney general’s (AG) July 1, 2025, proposed settlement with Healthline Media LLC (Healthline) marks the third cookie-related California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) settlement in as many months (alongside the...more

California AG Issues Largest Monetary Penalty in Most Recent CCPA Enforcement Action

WilmerHale on 7/8/2025

On July 1, the California Attorney General (CA AG) announced a $1.55 million settlement – the largest penalty issued under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to date – with Healthline, an online health and wellness...more

Healthline to Pay $1.55M for Alleged CCPA Violations: Key Lessons for Businesses from Largest Settlement Yet

Fisher Phillips on 7/8/2025

Healthline Media has agreed to pay $1.55 million to resolve allegations that it violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) – which is the largest settlement to date under the state’s landmark privacy law. The...more

California’s Latest Dose of Enforcement Regarding Health Data

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/7/2025

On July 1, 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a settlement with Healthline Media LLC stemming from alleged violations of the state’s consumer privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)....more

California attorney general fines company $1.55M for CCPA violations

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 7/7/2025

On July 1, the California Attorney General proposed a final judgment and permanent injunction to resolve allegations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) concerning a company’s alleged mishandling of consumers’...more

House Budget Reconciliation Bill Would Delay State AI Regulation

McDermott Will & Emery on 6/11/2025

On May 22, 2025, the US House of Representatives passed the budget reconciliation bill, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which includes language that would prohibit any state from enforcing any law or regulation...more

U.S. States Unite to Strengthen Privacy Enforcement

Baker Botts L.L.P. on 6/2/2025

On April 16, 2025, a coalition of state attorneys general and privacy regulators from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, New Jersey, Oregon, and the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced the...more

U.S. State Privacy Regulators Create Consortium as Enforcement Trends Emerge

Benesch on 5/20/2025

Trends and areas of focus under U.S. state data protection laws emerge as U.S. states with data protection laws in place increase enforcement actions and coordination....more

States form Consortium of Privacy Regulators to cooperate on enforcement

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 4/28/2025

On April 16, attorneys general from seven states and a state agency announced that they were forming the Consortium of Privacy Regulators, a new effort to better protect consumers’ privacy. The Consortium consists of the...more

State Privacy Regulators Announce Formation of Privacy ‘Supergroup’

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/21/2025

The concept of the “supergroup” may have originated with rock and roll, but on April 16, 2025, privacy practitioners in the United States learned that a whole new type of supergroup has been formed. ...more

California Probe Targets Location Data Industry: 5 Steps to Keep Your Business Off the CCPA Enforcement Radar

Fisher Phillips on 4/2/2025

A new California investigative sweep into the location data industry focuses on whether businesses have violated state law relating to the consumers’ right to limit how their personal information – including their geolocation...more

State AGs Step Up Privacy Enforcement

Hudson Cook, LLP on 4/2/2025

With attention on Democratic Attorneys General vowing to fill the void left by weakened federal regulators, and perhaps a more partisan divide on enforcement generally, a bipartisan consensus is quietly emerging in the states...more

March Privacy Forecast: U.S. State and Federal Enforcement Trends

Wiley Rein LLP on 3/31/2025

This week in our March Privacy Forecast, we discuss privacy and data security enforcement trends at the state and federal levels. Particularly as state privacy laws continue to expand and evolve, companies should understand...more

Location, Location, Location: California Attorney General Investigative Sweep and State Law Proposal Target Location Data

Clark Hill PLC on 3/17/2025

On March 10, the California attorney general’s office announced an “ongoing investigative sweep into the location data industry” (“investigative sweep”) for compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (“CCPA”)...more

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