California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Private Right of Action, Class Action

Updates on CIPA Reform: CA SB 690 Progresses to the Assembly Without Retroactivity Provision.

Benesch on 6/11/2025

A national leader in privacy law, California was among the first states to include an express right to privacy in its constitution, create a data breach notification law, and codify robust consumer data protections. ...more

Year in Review: CCPA Litigation Trends from 2023

WilmerHale on 3/4/2024

This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is most known for its onerous privacy compliance obligations, the law also...more

[Podcast] 2020 CCPA Litigation Report – Analyzing the First Year of Litigation

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 4/7/2021

In this episode, Akin Gump cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice co-heads Natasha Kohne and Michelle Reed, and counsel Molly Whitman discuss the firm’s new 2020 CCPA Litigation Annual Report and its...more

Dismissal Of Marriott Data Breach Lawsuit Shows How Plaintiffs Still Face Standing Hurdles In The Post-CCPA Era

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth on 1/28/2021

After the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took effect on January 1, 2020, a surge of class action lawsuits predicated on alleged CCPA violations hit businesses. Because of the act’s novelty, it was unclear whether...more

Class Action Suits Attempt To Stretch Consumers’ Ability To Sue For CCPA Violations

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth on 1/27/2021

The CCPA’s Private Right Of Action - The CCPA gives consumers several new “Privacy Rights”—such as the right to know how their personal information is collected, used and shared, the right to request deletion of their...more

The Minted Complaint: Another Case Brought Under the CCPA’s Private Right of Action

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 7/23/2020

Well before the California Attorney General’s power to enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) commenced on July 1, 2020, as we have recently reported, private plaintiffs had already jumped into the fray, suing...more

California Privacy Law Update—CCPA Enforcement Begins July 1, 2020

Greenberg Glusker LLP on 6/29/2020

As previously announced, the California Attorney General’s Office (“Cal AG”) will begin enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which came into effect on January 1, 2020, on July 1st. The Cal AG has...more

Importance of CCPA Compliance Highlighted by First Round of Private Actions

McDermott Will & Emery on 5/20/2020

The first wave of California Consumer Privacy Act litigation has begun to roll in, and the complaints are already raising interesting questions about the scope of CCPA’s private right of action. The actions assert a variety...more

A CCPA Private Right of Action on the Horizon: Class Action Complaints Test Whether Plaintiffs Can Sue for Any Violation of the...

Alston & Bird on 4/13/2020

Plaintiffs’ counsel have started to lay the groundwork for a broad private right of action under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The first part of this article provides an overview of how the CCPA addresses...more

New CCPA Lawsuit Against Zoom: Issues to Watch

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 4/7/2020

As large portions of society become subject to coronavirus-related quarantines, increasing numbers of people have turned to web-based communications platforms for classes, meetings, events, and socialization. One such...more

Litigation Case Claims Violation of CCPA Under Statutory Private Right of Action

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/13/2020

One of the most significant consumer rights offered by the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is what we call the “private right of action” afforded by the law. A private right of action under a law basically means...more

The First Wave of CCPA Class Action Litigation

Fisher Phillips on 3/11/2020

California’s all-inclusive privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect on January 1, 2020, has already been cited in numerous lawsuits. Over this next year, employers are likely to see lawsuits...more

Privacy Alert: Let the CCPA Class Action Lawsuits Commence

Lathrop GPM on 2/12/2020

The first post-California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) data breach class action was filed on February 3 in the Northern District of California. See Barnes v. Hanna Andersson, LLC , N.D. Cal., Case No. 20-cv-00812....more

[Webinar] Reasonable Security – Proactive Defense Against CCPA’s Private Right Of Action - November 19th, 11:30 am ET

McDermott Will & Emery on 11/12/2019

With the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) effective date of January 1, 2020, fast approaching, businesses subject to California’s new privacy law must come into compliance with a number of new obligations. That burden...more

CCPA Security FAQs: What is the Most Popular Court for Filing Data Breach Class Actions?

BCLP on 9/12/2019

The United States District Court for the Central District of California. For the last five years, BCLP has published the leading analysis of data breach class action litigation. As part of that study, BCLP has reviewed every...more

Five Steps to Mitigate CCPA Class Action Risk: What Companies Need to Do to Increase Data Security

Fenwick & West LLP on 8/25/2019

While many companies and service providers are spending significant time and budget on the privacy-related requirements of the forthcoming California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the largest exposure for companies not selling...more

CCPA Security FAQs: Can employees bring a class action under the CCPA following a data breach?

BCLP on 8/6/2019

More than likely. “Consumers” can bring suit under the CCPA if they can prove the following five elements...more

California Passes, and Massachusetts Considers, Data Privacy Laws That May Trigger a Flood of Class Actions

King & Spalding on 7/5/2019

Last year, California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act, which creates a private right of action for consumers whose personal information is subject to unauthorized access. The law goes into effect in January. A...more

Will the New CCPA Cause an Uptick in Class Action Cases?

Epiq on 6/19/2019

Privacy remains a hotly debated subject in the U.S. and many states are taking steps to protect customer’s personal information. The newest legislation with the most teeth belongs to California, who in February 2019 passed...more

CCPA Bill Expanding Class Actions Fails but The Persistence of Chaos Succeeds

Stoel Rives LLP on 5/29/2019

Class action lawsuits hurt businesses in at least three ways: they harm reputation, disrupt continuity, and are expensive to defend. In a privacy and cybersecurity context, even when dismissed at an early stage – when it is...more

SB 561 Held in Committee - Private Right of Action Under the CCPA Confined (for Now)

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 5/20/2019

On Thursday, March 16, 2019, the California Senate Appropriations Committee held in Committee SB 561, which would have greatly expanded the private right of action (i.e., the ability to bring private class actions) available...more

Potentially Expanded Private Right of Action Increases Risk of Class Action Exposure Under the California Consumer Privacy Act

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 5/2/2019

Looking Back - the California Consumer Privacy Act, and How We Got Here - As companies were getting up-to-speed on the effects of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last year, California quickly...more

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