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Holland & Knight LLP

California Attorney General Enters $1.55 Million CCPA Settlement with Healthline Media

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta has settled claims against Healthline Media (Healthline) for violations of the California Privacy Protection Act (CCPA) related to the company's sharing of personal information and...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

The ICO’s Penalty Against 23andMe Brings New Emphasis on Cybersecurity Risks - Key Takeaways for U.S. Companies

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The dramatic increase in global reach that the internet provides U.S.-based companies comes as a double edge sword. While it significantly increases a company’s potential customer pool, it also subjects companies to...more

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California AG Issues Largest Monetary Penalty in Most Recent CCPA Enforcement Action

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On July 1, the California Attorney General (CA AG) announced a $1.55 million settlement – the largest penalty issued under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to date – with Healthline, an online health and wellness...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

GDPR Fines to Be Determined by Reference to Global Turnover of Corporate Group

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The CJEU has decided that the maximum thresholds for GDPR fines should be calculated using the global turnover of the broader corporate group, not solely the infringing entity....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

We’ll Take the Fine: OCR’s ‘Unwarranted,’ Costly Demands Prompted Hospital’s $538K Payment

The saga that led Children’s Hospital Colorado to accept a fine of more than $500,000 imposed by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) began on July 11, 2017, when a physician’s email account containing details on 3,300...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CFPB Orders Credit Reporting Agency to Pay $15 Million for Mishandling Consumer Disputes

On January 17, 2025, the CFPB issued a consent order against a large consumer reporting agency for failing to properly investigate consumer disputes concerning inaccurate information on consumers’ credit reports. The CFPB...more

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Texas Files First Privacy Law Enforcement Action

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On January 13, 2025, Texas Attorney General’s Office filed its first lawsuit enforcing the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”). The law went into effect on July 1, 2024. The complaint also states claims under Texas’...more

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California Attorney General's Recent Enforcement of CCPA and COPPA

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On June 18, 2024, California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta announced a third CCPA enforcement settlement, this one with Tilting Point Media LLC. Tilting Point was allegedly using its mobile app game "SpongeBob: Krusty...more

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Third CCPA Enforcement Settlement with California Attorney General and Los Angeles City Attorney Announced Against Mobile Game App

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In a joint press release published on June 18, the California Attorney General and Los Angeles City Attorney announced a settlement with Tilting Point Media LLC (Tilting Point) in connection with alleged violations of the...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

A Million Here, A Million There: Avast Sets the Record for the Highest Monetary Remedy for FTC Act Privacy Violations

According to Chair Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recent action against Avast Limited and its subsidiaries for $16.5 million is the “highest monetary remedy in a de novo privacy violation case” and the first...more

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FTC Calls Out Genetic Data as an Enforcement Priority

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently published a post on their Business Guidance Blog discussing lessons learned from three enforcement actions against sellers of genetic testing products. These guidelines address...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 11. MD Anderson Won Against OCR, But Agency’s Response—Including on Fines—Keeps...

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 11. (November 2022) Nearly five years passed from the time the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that three...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

Glow Up or Blow Up: Five Takeaways from the CCPA Enforcement Action Against Sephora

As we discussed last year, the California Attorney General’s Office (“OAG”) has been wielding its enforcement authority under the California Consumer Privacy Act since the law became enforceable in July 2020.  But for two...more

Venable LLP

Twitter Will Pay $150 Million to Settle Charges That It Misrepresented Its Privacy and Security Practices

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Last week, the United States Department of Justice, acting on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, took action against Twitter, Inc. for allegedly using private account security data to sell targeted advertisements without...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

OCR: Current Fines Too Low to Spur Compliance; Agency Also Seeks Funding Boost, Injunctive Relief

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 5 (May, 2022) - Compared to other agencies, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a little fish in the big federal pond, but it has an outsize effect on HIPAA covered entities (CEs) and...more

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FTC Unfriends Facebook But Wants to Stay in Touch

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The Federal Trade Commission announced its settlement with Facebook on the same day that Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee. While this may have been calculated to take Facebook off the front page,...more

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K&L Gates Triage: HIPAA Enforcement Discretion, Disputes, and Data

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released a notice of enforcement discretion announcing changes in how the agency will assess civil monetary penalties for violations of the Health Insurance...more

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HHS to Reduce Top HIPAA Fines Based on “Level of Culpability”

In a Notification of Enforcement Discretion Regarding HIPAA Civil Money Penalties issued on April 23, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) exercised “its discretion in how it applies HHS regulations...more

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The SEC Released A Risk Alert On Reg S-P, a/k/a How To Avoid A $1 Million Penalty

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I am hardly saying that SEC Regulation S-P is the sexiest of regulations. I mean, has any customer is history actually read one of those exciting statement stuffers that discloses in some dense font a BD’s privacy policy?...more

McDermott Will & Emery

2018 Digital Health Data Developments – Navigating Change in 2019

Data privacy and security legislation and enforcement saw significant activity in 2018 and early 2019. McDermott’s 2018 Digital Health Year in Review: Focus on Data report – the first in a four-part series – highlights...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Summary Judgment: Recent HIPAA Case Emphasizes Encryption, Action on Risk Analysis - AHLA Health Information and Technology...

On June 18, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that an HHS Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) granted summary judgment to OCR in an enforcement action...more

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SEC Cybersecurity Update

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Results from the SEC’s First Round of Cybersecurity Examinations - On February 3, 2015, the OCIE published a risk alert summarizing its findings from its examinations of over 100 registered investment advisers and...more

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Investment Adviser Settles SEC Cybersecurity Enforcement Action; SEC Issues Investor Alert

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On September 22, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management, Inc. (“R.T. Jones”), a St. Louis-based investment adviser, settled charges that R.T. Jones failed to adopt...more

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The SEC Charges Investment Adviser with Violating Regulation S-P by Failing to Adopt Cybersecurity Policies and Procedures

In recent years, the SEC has been focused on cybersecurity. It has issued risk alerts, conducted examinations and provided guidance about what the agency sees as widespread weaknesses in many policies and procedures to...more

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SEC Announces Cybersecurity Enforcement Action

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On September 22, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the settlement of an enforcement action against a St. Louis-based registered investment adviser (Adviser) brought under Rule 30(a) of Regulation...more

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