California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Sensitive Personal Information, Consumer Privacy Rights

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

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

Connecticut Enacts Significant Amendments to State’s Data Privacy Law

Husch Blackwell LLP on 6/26/2025

On June 25, Connecticut Governor Lamont signed Senator James Maroney’s SB 1295 into law. The bill makes several notable changes to Connecticut’s existing consumer data privacy law, including modifying its applicability...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 AG Announces Investigative Sweep Targeting Geolocation Data

Troutman Pepper Locke on 4/16/2025

On March 10, California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta announced an investigative sweep of the location data industry for potential noncompliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)....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

California attorney general investigates location data industry

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 3/17/2025

On March 10, California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta launched an investigation into the location data industry, issuing letters to companies that the AG alleged “appear to be in violation of the California Consumer Privacy...more

Client Alert: Latest Developments in California Privacy Enforcement in March 2025 – Investigative Sweep and CPPA Enforcement...

Jenner & Block on 3/17/2025

California has again made headlines this week with two notable data privacy developments under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”): (1) the California Attorney General’s (“California AG”) announcement of a new...more

California Privacy Protection Agency Begins Investigative Sweep into Location Data Collection under CCPA

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/14/2025

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) the agency responsible for implementing and enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) (collectively the CCPA), protecting...more

Session-Replay Class Action Tossed by the Eighth Circuit

Mintz on 2/24/2025

Over the last several years, litigation (often class actions) premised on the use of technology like session-replay products, web beacons, pixels, and cookies has proliferated. Typical theories include plaintiffs claiming...more

PII Compliance Requirements & Best Practices

Osano on 2/5/2025

Businesses need data from consumers, and the sharing and selling of this resource has become quite common. However, you also need to be mindful of the rights of the people whose data you collect, especially their personally...more

New Year, New Privacy Laws!

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 1/10/2025

States continued to pass comprehensive consumer privacy laws throughout 2024. 2025 brings eight new state-level comprehensive consumer privacy laws into effect. As with the five state privacy laws that went into effect in...more

California Amends Key CCPA Definitions

McDermott Will & Emery on 10/3/2024

California is set to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) with two recent amendments that have been signed into law. Assembly Bill (AB 1008) and Senate Bill 1223 (SB 1223) aim to clarify how the law...more

That’s the Way the Cookie Crumbles

Burr & Forman on 9/13/2024

Do you know what cookies your company’s website is using? If not, you likely do not know whether your company’s website is honoring users’ data protection choices involving the use of cookies. You should know and care so your...more

California Joins the Neural Data Bandwagon

Alston & Bird on 9/13/2024

On August 31, the California assembly passed SB1223, which amends the CCPA/CPRA to include “neural data” as a type of sensitive data. SB1223, which is likely to become law, defines “neural data” as “information that is...more

Accelerating Privacy Scrutiny: Key Developments for the Auto Industry

Venable LLP on 6/4/2024

Recent U.S. developments indicate a growing focus on regulating and investigating the data privacy practices of companies in the automotive sector. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently highlighted in a blog post its...more

California’s Privacy Laws: Financial and Medical Data, Website Usage, Children’s Data, Data Brokers, and Customer Records

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/29/2024

California has a long history of protecting privacy rights. Article I, Section 1, of the California Constitution expressly provides a right of privacy. Recently, the focus has been on compliance with the California Consumer...more

California Looks to Amend Data Broker Law

WilmerHale on 9/1/2023

The state of California is on the verge of amending its current data broker law with Senate Bill 362, also known as the Delete Act (“the Act”). The Act passed in the Assembly’s Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection and...more

Privacy ‘Deep in the Heart of Texas’: An Overview of the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act

BakerHostetler on 6/21/2023

Texas, long lauded as one of the most “business-friendly” states, has passed a comprehensive privacy law that will bring new regulations to consumer personal data. The new Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”), H.B....more

State Privacy Update: California Finalizes New CCPA Regulations and Iowa Becomes the Sixth State to Adopt Comprehensive Privacy...

Wiley Rein LLP on 4/7/2023

March wrapped up with several significant state privacy developments. First, on March 28, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 262 (SF 262) into law, making Iowa the sixth state to adopt comprehensive data privacy...more

A measured approach | US Cybersecurity and Data Privacy review and update: Looking back on our 2022 articles to help navigate 2023

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 3/3/2023

The year 2023 will continue to have cybersecurity and data privacy front of mind for General Counsels. With sweeping new US and global laws and regulations coming online and the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)...more

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