California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Personal Information, State Privacy Laws

The Next Battlefront: the CCPA and evolution of website pixel litigation

Hogan Lovells on 7/29/2025

A trio of federal court decisions has emboldened the plaintiffs' bar with a new potential tool to wield in the ongoing wave of litigation targeting businesses for their use of routine website technologies: the California...more

California Adopts Regulations on Cybersecurity Audits

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 7/29/2025

California has approved new regulations requiring some companies to conduct annual audits of their cybersecurity programs, including the policies, procedures, and practices for protecting personal information. On July 24,...more

OOPS! What Website Owners Need to Know about Opt-Out Preference Signals + 4 Compliance Steps

Fisher Phillips on 7/28/2025

Businesses should be aware of recent public outreach in California – and other states with consumer privacy laws – signaling that increased enforcement activity is on the horizon. For instance, the California Privacy...more

From Data to Decisions: Navigating Privacy and Litigation Risks in the AI Era

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/23/2025

While many systems that are described as AI have been around for decades (e.g., internet search engines), today’s AI tools are much more powerful and are widely accessible. Generative AI and agentic AI extend the power of...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

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

CPPA’s Precision Strike: Tackling the Fine Print of CCPA Regulations

Cooley LLP on 6/2/2025

A pair of recent enforcement actions by the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) unveiled the agency’s latest enforcement priorities for business-to-consumer companies. In March 2025, the CPPA announced a settlement...more

California’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act Compendium

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP on 5/23/2025

Does your state have its own version of the TCPA? Yes. California has what is known as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which is located in sections 1798.100 to 1798.199.100 of the California Civil Code. The...more

California privacy agency issues two actions for non-compliance

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 5/19/2025

On May 8, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) ordered a Florida-based data broker to pay a $46,000 fine for failing to register and pay an annual fee as required by the Delete Act. The CPPA noted that the...more

Clothing Retailer Faces Big Fines for CCPA Violations: A Wake-Up Call + An Action Plan for Businesses

Fisher Phillips on 5/16/2025

In a significant enforcement move, California’s consumer privacy regulator just ordered a national clothing retailer to pay a $345,178 fine to resolve alleged violations of the state’s privacy law. The California Privacy...more

California Privacy Agency Continues Enforcement Spree with Todd Snyder Settlement

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 5/13/2025

On May 6, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced a settlement with Todd Snyder, Inc. over allegations that the men’s retail brand violated CCPA rules on submission and fulfillment of privacy rights...more

New CCPA Regs: Part 1: Dark Patterns

Fox Rothschild LLP on 5/7/2025

New California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Regs are here, with comments open until June 2. There are a lot of issues to address, and a lot of work for companies to implement. We are talking about billions of dollars in...more

Recent CCPA Decision Portends Potential Expansion of Class Action Liability Exposure For Cookies, Pixels, and Tracking...

Baker Donelson on 5/5/2025

Wild, wild, west? Web tracking may be the new frontier in class action litigation. With thousands of lawsuits filed in California and increasingly in other states against organizations, including many who may not realize the...more

California Regulator Signals New Era in Privacy Enforcement

Hudson Cook, LLP on 5/1/2025

In March, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency announced a consent order with an auto manufacturer alleging multiple violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act and imposing a $632,500 fine for alleged failure...more

CIPA and CCPA – Worlds Are Colliding!

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP on 4/23/2025

Topics that we often discuss on this blog are the use of third-party tracking tools and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”). Less discussed of late, however, is the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) which,...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

CPPA Announces Its First CCPA Non-Data Broker Enforcement Action

Husch Blackwell LLP on 3/13/2025

On March 12, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) announced its first non-data broker enforcement action requiring a vehicle manufacturer to pay an administrative fine of $632,500 in connection with the...more

The New Frontier of California Privacy Enforcement: A Tougher Era for Data Brokers

Benesch on 3/12/2025

Last week, the Board of the Enforcement Division of the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) approved a settlement with California-based data broker Background Alert, Inc., requiring Background Alert to cease its...more

California Privacy Protection Agency Ramps Up Data Broker Oversight

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 3/6/2025

In recent months, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has stepped firmly into a role as the nation’s leading data broker regulatory and enforcement agency....more

California’s Proposed Location Privacy Act: A Potential Game-Changer for Tracking Location of Individuals

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/26/2025

Businesses that track the geolocation of individuals—whether for fleet management, sales and promotion, logistics, risk mitigation, or other reasons—should closely monitor the progress of California Assembly Bill 1355 (AB...more

Get to Know the Global Privacy Control (GPC): State Attorneys General Remind Consumers of Their Right to Opt-Out of the Sale or...

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 2/21/2025

Introduction - Most businesses are aware of historical restrictions or limitations on selling personal information to third parties for monetary consideration....more

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