California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Sensitive Personal Information, Data Collection

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 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

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

Technical CCPA Violations Result in $345,178 Fine from California Privacy Protection Agency

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 5/13/2025

The California Consumer Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board has issued a Stipulated Final Order against Todd Snyder, Inc., a clothing retailer, ordering Todd Snyder to pay a $345,178 fine and implement various changes to...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

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

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

AI and Sports - Security vs. Privacy

BakerHostetler on 9/27/2024

With the United States preparing to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 2034 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the race is on for venues, individual states and the federal government...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

Looking Down the Road: Data Privacy Priorities in 2024

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 2/16/2024

2023 brought a surge of data privacy developments, with a large expansion of state comprehensive privacy laws, litigation of new claims based on older laws (e.g. wiretapping and VPPA cases), increased scrutiny on data...more

Are You Ready? How CCPA-Regulated Businesses Can Plan for Compliance with California’s Forthcoming Cybersecurity Regulations

McCarter & English, LLP on 12/5/2023

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) released initial draft regulations for cybersecurity audits (which have since been amended) and risk assessments late this summer. The agency’s board of directors addressed the...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

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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