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On July 1, California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta announced a significant proposed settlement with Healthline Media LLC (Healthline) — a prominent website publisher of health information and wellness articles. The...more
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong recently announced the state’s first-ever enforcement settlement under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) with TicketNetwork, Inc., an online ticket marketplace. The settlement...more
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
Over a year after his office’s last privacy enforcement action, on July 1, 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (AG) announced a new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) settlement with Healthline Media LLC...more
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
State attorneys general and regulatory agencies continue to enforce against violations of comprehensive state privacy laws, as demonstrated by recent enforcement actions by the California and Connecticut Attorneys General and...more
The California Attorney General (AG) has announced a landmark $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media LLC (Healthline), which operates a health information website. The settlement marks the largest fine to date in an...more
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
In April of this year, the California Privacy Protection Agency imposed a $632,500.00 monetary penalty on American Honda Motor Co. In our discussion of that action - Are Cookies Banners Crumbling? – we raised the alarm for...more
Healthline Media has agreed to pay $1.55 million to resolve allegations that it violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) – which is the largest settlement to date under the state’s landmark privacy law. The...more
In a significant enforcement move, California’s consumer privacy regulator just ordered a national clothing retailer to pay a $345,178 fine to resolve alleged violations of the state’s privacy law. The California Privacy...more
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) recently fined clothing retailer Todd Snyder almost $350,000 for two types of consumer privacy errors. Due to technical errors during a 40-day period, it was impossible for Todd...more
On April 17, 2025, the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”) released an Updated Enforcement Report Pursuant to the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (“Report”). The Report, the second issued by OAG (read our...more
As with many other areas of privacy law, it is not surprising that California continues to lead the nation in regulating data brokers – from promulgating new regulations to issuing a cluster of recent settlements. ...more
A major vehicle automaker will have to change its business practices and pay a hefty fine to resolve claims that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), according to the state regulatory authority...more
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) recently announced a settlement with American Honda Motor Co., Inc. (Honda) over alleged privacy violations. The settlement arises from the CPPA’s investigation into the privacy...more
With a continued lack of progress on federal privacy legislation, state Attorney Generals are emphasizing the importance of protecting consumers and their right to opt out of sharing and selling their personal information....more
Businesses take heed: California state officials just warned that the law prohibits you from collecting unnecessary data and retaining data for longer than necessary. The California Privacy Protection Agency published its...more
On April 2, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA or “the Agency”) issued the Agency’s first-ever enforcement advisory. The advisory (“Applying Data Minimization to Consumer Requests”) reaffirms data minimization as...more
The California Attorney General (“AG”) recently delivered (pun very much intended) a public CCPA enforcement action against DoorDash, its second following the 2022 settlement with Sephora. The DoorDash action stems from a...more
On June 6, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis approved the passage of Senate Bill 262, which establishes the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR), set to go into effect July 1, 2024. Florida is now the tenth state to pass...more
The California Office of Attorney General (OAG) is responsible for enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and began sending notifications of alleged non-compliance to companies on July 1, 2020. In June 2021,...more
As companies prepare for the provisions of the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) to come into effect in January 2023, California Office of Attorney General (“OAG”) has signaled that companies should not wait to start...more
On August 24, 2022, the California Attorney General released a statement regarding a settlement agreement that the State of California reached with Sephora, Inc. (“Sephora”), the international consumer product retailer...more
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