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Recent Developments in California Privacy Laws - The Consumer Finance Podcast
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
Online retailers now face an increasingly complex matrix of state consumer-privacy statutes that impose prescriptive requirements on data collection, monetization, and cybersecurity practices. ...more
Businesses should expect to see “increased enforcement” from the California Privacy Protection Agency now that the agency has had four years to staff up and implement rules, the CPPA’s executive director said in an interview...more
Trends and areas of focus under U.S. state data protection laws emerge as U.S. states with data protection laws in place increase enforcement actions and coordination....more
The California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) has made it abundantly clear: privacy compliance isn’t just about publishing the right disclosures – it’s about whether your systems actually work. On May 6, the agency fined...more
There is never a boring moment in California privacy law, and these past weeks have been no exception. From major modifications to proposed California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) rulemaking on automated decision-making...more
On 12 March 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) settled with an automaker that allegedly violated various aspects of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This first-of-its-kind settlement for the...more
On March 14, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board announced it appointed Tom Kemp as the CPPA’s executive director, effective April 1. Kemp enters the CPPA with experience as a policy advisor, cybersecurity...more
Last week, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) settled its first non-data broker enforcement action against American Honda Motor Co. for a $632,500 fine and the implementation of certain remedial actions....more
On February 26 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) published its first annual report for 2024 (Report). The Report highlights that the CPPA recovered more than USD170,000 of administrative fines for data...more
On March 12, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) published its decision approving a Stipulated Final Order (Order) against a major automotive manufacturer (company) for violations of the California Consumer...more
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has reached a settlement with American Honda Motor Co., Inc. (Honda), as outlined in this Order of Decision. The Order is the CPPA’s first public enforcement action involving a...more
In a landmark privacy enforcement action, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has reached a settlement with American Honda Motor Co. (“Honda”) following allegations that the automaker violated the CCPA. The...more
On March 12, 2025, the Board of the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) issued a decision requiring American Honda Motor Co. (“American Honda”) to change its business practices and pay a $632,500 fine for making it...more
On March 12, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the Agency) announced a settlement with American Honda Motor Company, Inc. (Honda) for multiple violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA),...more
On March 6, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) proposed amendments to the data broker registration regulations pursuant to the California Delete Act that would introduce new definitions and requirements for data...more
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
On March 7, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) issued a settlement order imposing a $632,500 fine on American Honda Motor Co., Inc. for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CPPA...more
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has issued its first Order of Decision to American Honda Motor Co. in an enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CPPA). Although the investigation arose...more
On March 12, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced a settlement with American Honda Motor Co., resolving allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and requiring...more
The California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) has moved forward with an enforcement action and settlement with two data brokers resulting from its investigative sweep of data broker registration compliance under the...more
On February 27, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced it reached a settlement with a data broker company that failed to register and pay an annual registration fee as required under the Delete Act. The...more
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) and Background Alert, Inc. (a California-based data broker) settled allegations that Background Alert failed to register and pay the annual fee required by the California Delete...more
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
Ahead of its next board meeting, scheduled for March 6 and 7, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) released even more proposed regulations, adding to an already full slate of proposed regulations, to amend...more