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Healthline Media Agrees to Largest CCPA Settlement to Date

On July 1, 2025, the California Attorney General’s Office (AG) announced a proposed $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media, operator of the popular website Healthline.com. The AG alleges Healthline violated numerous...more

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California AG Reaches Record $1.55M CCPA Settlement with Healthline

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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

Cooley LLP

CPPA’s Precision Strike: Tackling the Fine Print of CCPA Regulations

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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

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

California’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act Compendium

Does your state have its own version of the TCPA? Yes. California has what is known as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which is located in sections 1798.100 to 1798.199.100 of the California Civil Code. The...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

New CCPA Regs: Part 1: Dark Patterns

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New California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Regs are here, with comments open until June 2. There are a lot of issues to address, and a lot of work for companies to implement. We are talking about billions of dollars in...more

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CPPA Announces New CCPA Enforcement Action

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Keypoint: In its second non-data broker enforcement action for violations of the CCPA, the California Privacy Protection Agency entered into a stipulated final order with a retailer for a $345,178 administrative fine and...more

Baker Donelson

Recent CCPA Decision Portends Potential Expansion of Class Action Liability Exposure For Cookies, Pixels, and Tracking...

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Wild, wild, west?  Web tracking may be the new frontier in class action litigation. With thousands of lawsuits filed in California and increasingly in other states against organizations, including many who may not realize the...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Court Expands Scope of Private Actions Under California Consumer Privacy Act to Include Pixel Tracking Practices

On March 3, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant ruling that has the potential to broaden the risk of liability under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). ...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

CIPA and CCPA – Worlds Are Colliding!

Topics that we often discuss on this blog are the use of third-party tracking tools and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”). Less discussed of late, however, is the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) which,...more

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What is Sufficient Consent?

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The following is sufficient consent for the Video Privacy Protection Act and the California Invasion of Privacy Act, according to a recent decision in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California....more

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New-Aged Automakers Beware: CPPA’s Enforcement Action Against Honda Results in the Agency’s First Settlement

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CPPA launched its first major enforcement action in targeting connected vehicle-maker Honda. Connected vehicles often collect various kinds of sensitive driver information, including geolocation, biometric and behavioral...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CPPA Settles Alleged CCPA Violations with Honda

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

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Key Takeaways from CPPA’s Recent Settlement with an Automotive Manufacturer for Alleged CCPA Violations

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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

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Lessons from the CPPA’s $632,500 Settlement with Connected Vehicle Manufacturer

On March 12, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced a settlement with American Honda Motor Co. (Honda) over alleged violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CPPA investigated...more

McDermott Will & Emery

CPPA Puts the Brakes on Honda’s Data Privacy Practices

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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

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

California’s Top Privacy Cop Issues First Enforcement Decision

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

Husch Blackwell LLP

CPPA Announces Its First CCPA Non-Data Broker Enforcement Action

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On March 12, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) announced its first non-data broker enforcement action requiring a vehicle manufacturer to pay an administrative fine of $632,500 in connection with the...more

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The New Frontier of California Privacy Enforcement: A Tougher Era for Data Brokers

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Last week, the Board of the Enforcement Division of the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) approved a settlement with California-based data broker Background Alert, Inc., requiring Background Alert to cease its...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

California Privacy Protection Agency Ramps Up Data Broker Oversight

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

Jackson Lewis P.C.

California’s Proposed Location Privacy Act: A Potential Game-Changer for Tracking Location of Individuals

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Businesses that track the geolocation of individuals—whether for fleet management, sales and promotion, logistics, risk mitigation, or other reasons—should closely monitor the progress of California Assembly Bill 1355 (AB...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Get to Know the Global Privacy Control (GPC): State Attorneys General Remind Consumers of Their Right to Opt-Out of the Sale or...

Introduction - Most businesses are aware of historical restrictions or limitations on selling personal information to third parties for monetary consideration....more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI...

Strategic Artificial Intelligence Planning Alert: A State and Federal Regulatory Roadmap for 2025 Compliance

The World Economic Forum has stated that 88 percent of C-suite executives indicated that adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in their companies is a key initiative for 2025. Companies are pivoting from merely testing AI to...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Data Privacy Day Checklist: Top 10 ways to protect your organization's data

Tomorrow is International Data Privacy Day, so a happy day to all! More seriously, data privacy concerns and legislation continue to rapidly increase. It has been estimated that by the end of 2024 more than 75 percent of...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Data Privacy Week 2025: A Brief History and Examining Three Core Tenets of Data Privacy Laws

Each year, Data Privacy Week offers an opportunity for companies and professionals to revisit the fundamentals of data privacy. This year, we are celebrating Data Privacy Week, which runs through January 31, by releasing a...more

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California Starts 2025 with More Regulatory Action

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The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is starting the year by implementing new data broker regulations, which took effect in late December, and continuing to move toward the completion of new rules for automated...more

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