California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Sensitive Personal Information, Corporate Counsel

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 Secures Landmark Privacy Settlement Over Tracking: What It Means for Your Website

Baker Donelson on 7/8/2025

In a record-setting enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Attorney General (AG) announced a $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media, a popular online publisher of health...more

Record-Breaking $1.55M CCPA Settlement Against Health Information Website Publisher

BakerHostetler on 7/7/2025

On July 1, the California attorney general (CA AG) announced the largest CCPA settlement to date, $1.55 million, and the first settlement against a website publisher, Healthline Media LLC (Healthline)....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

California Governor Signs Three Bills Amending CCPA Provisions on Sensitive Information and Opt-Out Preferences in the Context of...

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/8/2024

During the final days of the California legislative session, which ended on August 31, 2024, the California legislature passed several privacy bills, described below, that would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act...more

Maryland Legislature Passes Consumer Data Privacy Bill

Husch Blackwell LLP on 4/8/2024

Keypoint: Maryland’s bill diverges from other Washington Privacy Act variants passed to date with unique data minimization, sensitive data, minor’s data privacy, and unlawful discrimination provisions (among others)....more

California Continues to Expand Privacy Protections

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 10/16/2023

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CCPA”), is regarded as one of the strongest and most comprehensive privacy laws in the United States and in recent...more

CPRA Proposed Regulations Formally Noticed for 15 Day Comment Period

Husch Blackwell LLP on 11/4/2022

Keypoint: On the heels of last week’s Board meeting, Agency staff quickly turned around a modified version of the proposed regulations, triggering a fifteen day comment period and further signaling that the Agency is on track...more

New Comprehensive US State Privacy Laws Are Coming – Is Your Company Ready?

Paul Hastings LLP on 10/6/2022

Over the last two years, many states have taken cues from California and the EU by adopting sweeping privacy laws. These laws, passed in Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and Utah, as well as updates to the already enacted...more

Understanding the American Data Privacy and Protection Act

Mintz - ML Strategies on 6/9/2022

On Friday, June 3, Representative Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), the committee’s Ranking Member, and Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS), Ranking...more

How do the CPRA, VCDPA & CPA treat consumer requests?

Husch Blackwell LLP on 4/6/2022

Keypoint: The CPRA is relatively prescriptive in how organizations must receive and respond to consumer requests, while the CPA and VCDPA introduce an appeal process and other nuances that will require adjusting existing CCPA...more

California Privacy Rights Act Set to Apply to HR Data Effective January 1, 2023

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 3/29/2022

On January 1, 2023, absent intervention from the California legislature, the nation’s first comprehensive data privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act...more

How do the CPRA, CPA, & VCDPA treat publicly available information?

Husch Blackwell LLP on 1/28/2022

Keypoint: The CPRA, CPA, and VCDPA’s definitions of “publicly available information” are broader than the CCPA’s definition, thereby expanding the types of personal information companies may process outside the confines of...more

California Consumer Privacy Act, California Privacy Rights Act FAQs for Covered Businesses

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/20/2022

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), considered one of the most expansive U.S. privacy laws to date, went into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA placed significant limitations on the collection and sale of a...more

CPRA Countdown: It's time to brush up on California's latest data privacy law

Bracewell LLP on 12/20/2021

On November 3, 2020, California voters approved Proposition 24, a ballot initiative which enacted the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). The CPRA amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the most sweeping...more

Three More California Privacy Bills Become Law: CPPA Rulemaking Responsibility, Genetic Data Breaches, and New Genetic Information...

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 10/14/2021

Californians voted to enact the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) almost one year ago. Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom signed three new privacy bills into law....more

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