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CPPA Underscores That Businesses Own CCPA Compliance – Even When Privacy Management Tools Fail

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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

Troutman Pepper Locke

California AG Announces Investigative Sweep Targeting Geolocation Data

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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

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

CPPA Drives Home Enforcement Priorities in CCPA Settlement with Honda

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

Hudson Cook, LLP

California Privacy Protection Agency Takes CCPA Enforcement Action Against Auto Maker for Alleged Violations of Consumer Privacy...

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On March 7, 2025, the CPPA finalized a Stipulated Order against an automobile manufacturer (the "Company") alleging multiple violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") ....more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

New York AG Settles with School Calendar App, Saturn

This week, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement with app developer Saturn Technologies (Saturn) following an investigation into privacy practices that promised teens an exclusive community but...more

Wiley Rein LLP

FCC Proposes First of its Kind $4.5 Million Penalty on Voice Provider for Alleged Know-Your-Customer Failures

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On February 4, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) against voice service provider Telnyx LLC (Telnyx) for alleged violations of the...more

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Texas AG Brings First Ever Lawsuit Under a State Comprehensive Privacy Law

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On January 13, 2025, the Texas Attorney General (AG) announced a lawsuit against insurance company Allstate, and its subsidiary, Arity, for allegedly collecting, using and selling the geolocation and movement of Texan...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CPPA Announces Settlements with Data Brokers for Failure to Register Under the Delete Act

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On November 14, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”), which is tasked with enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), announced it settled with two data brokers, Growbots, Inc. and UpLead...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

No Money, Mo’ Problems: DoorDash CCPA Enforcement Action Emphasizes Personal Information “Sales” Aren’t All About the Benjamins

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

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California AG Announces Second CCPA Enforcement Action

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On February 21, the California Attorney General (“AG”) announced a settlement with DoorDash, an online food delivery service, to resolve allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

Bad Medicine: 5 Lessons from the Connecticut AG’s Report on CTDPA Cure Notices

On February 1, 2024, the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”) issued a Report to the General Assembly’s General Law Committee (“Report”), summarizing the OAG’s enforcement efforts during six months since the...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

FTC Gives it to X-Mode: 5 Lessons from the Agency’s Latest Consumer Location Data Case

The FTC announced an action last week against location data broker X-Mode Social and its corporate successor Outlogic (collectively, “X-Mode”) based on several alleged violations of Section 5 of the FTC Act. According to FTC...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

Alston & Bird

Sephora Ordered to “Make-Up” for CCPA Violations

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On August 24, 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a $1.2 million dollar settlement with Sephora to account for alleged violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).  This is the first CCPA...more

K&L Gates LLP

California Attorney General Announces First CCPA Settlement Against Sephora

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On 24 August 2022, the California Attorney General announced a US$1.2 million settlement including injunctive relief terms with cosmetic giant Sephora, Inc. (Sephora), resolving allegations that the company violated the...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

In First, Company Fined for Violating CCPA

Sephora, the cosmetics giant of the LVMH group, must pay a USD 1.2 million fine for failure to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), after receiving a warning from the California Attorney General and time to...more

Saul Ewing LLP

California Attorney General Reaches $1.2 Million Settlement With Sephora as Part of His Office’s Continued Enforcement of the...

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The California Attorney General began exercising enforcement authority under the CCPA on January 1, 2020. Among the CCPA’s enumerated rights for consumers, the cornerstone of the CCPA, is the right to opt out of the...more

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California Attorney General settles with Sephora in first CCPA fine

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On August 24, 2022, the California Attorney General’s Office (“AG”) issued a press release regarding a settlement with Sephora, Inc. over allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and...more

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CA AG Announces First Public CCPA Enforcement Decision

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On August 24, 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (“CA AG”) announced a $1.2 million settlement with Sephora, Inc. (“Sephora”), marking the first announced enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Sephora Settles with California AG for CCPA Violations over Sale of Data

In the first of its kind under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Sephora settled an enforcement action with the California Attorney General for violation of the CCPA. Sephora must pay $1.2 million in penalties and...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Mysteries Solved! California Attorney General Reveals CCPA First-Year Enforcement and Launches Consumer Complaint Tool

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Not since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, have people wondered more. Which companies were the early targets of the California Attorney General’s enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and on what...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Crossroads

Long-Awaited DFS Cyber Enforcement Action Sees Charges Filed Against Title Insurer For Exposing Millions of Documents Containing...

After several years of anticipation, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has filed its first enforcement action under the agency's groundbreaking and first-in-the-nation 2017 cybersecurity regulation...more

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