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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

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

New Year, New Health Privacy Law? – What You Need to Know About NYHIPA

A New York health privacy law has moved quickly through both chambers of the state legislature and is up for review by Governor Kathy Hochul. The New York Health Information Privacy Act (“NYHIPA”) bears striking resemblance...more

Data Brokers Must Provide Full 2023 Metrics in CPPA Registrations

Data brokers who are registering with the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) this month should prepare to provide full metrics about their responses to privacy rights in calendar year 2023....more

California’s Revised Data Broker Regulations Took Effect on December 27

The California Privacy Protection Agency’s (CPPA) new data broker regulations took effect on December 27, 2024. They are now in effect during the CPPA’s annual data broker registration period, which lasts from January 1 to...more

State Privacy Law Requirements: Instructing Vendors and Partners to Fulfill Deletion and Opt Out Privacy Rights Requests

Under many circumstances, state privacy laws require businesses to pass a consumer’s valid deletion request to any entity that processes the data on behalf of the business or otherwise is a recipient of the data. These...more

California Privacy Protection Agency expands the definition of ​“data broker”

On November 8, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) voted 5-0 to approve new regulations to implement the DELETE Act of 2023. The most noteworthy development was the agency’s adoption of a new definition of...more

CFPB Pushes Move to an Open Banking System with the Personal Financial Data Rights Rule and Sparks Immediate Court Challenges from...

On Tuesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released the final version of the Personal Financial Data Rights Rule that requires many financial institutions, credit card issuers, and other financial service...more

The California Privacy Protection Agency Advances Regulations to Reign in AI, Mandate Security Audits and Risk Assessments, and...

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has signaled it will advance rulemaking at its upcoming November 8 board meeting to place restrictions on the use of automated decision-making technology (ADMT) and impose new...more

FTC to Study “Surveillance Pricing”

On July 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had voted unanimously to initiate a new study focused on how companies may be leveraging consumer purchasing behaviors to personalize pricing for...more

AI Legislative and Regulatory Efforts Pick Up Steam: What We’re Watching

AI capabilities are growing by the day, and with them, so are increasing government efforts to put in place guardrails, principles, and rules to govern the AI space. In May alone, Utah’s Artificial Intelligence Policy Act...more

What Updates to the Health Breach Notification Rule Mean for Your Business

On July 29, 2024, the FTC’s revised Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) takes effect. The Rule requires vendors of personal health records (PHRs) and related entities not covered by HIPAA to notify individuals, the FTC,...more

Top 5 State Privacy Issues We’re Monitoring This Year

The year ahead promises to be busy on the state privacy front. As we’ve covered on this blog, states are continuing to fill the gap at the federal level by implementing comprehensive state laws that guarantee consumer privacy...more

Top Advertising Law Developments in 2023

If you follow our blog, you already know that there have been a number of significant developments in the world of advertising law over the past 12 months. In this post, we highlight ten of those developments and consider...more

FTC Proposes Changes to COPPA Rule: What Businesses Need to Know

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule). The COPPA Rule applies to operators of websites and online services...more

CFPB Issues Proposed Rule to Expand Supervisory Authority, Conduct Examinations of Digital Wallets and Mobile Payment Apps

Yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a notice of proposed rulemaking that would allow the agency to supervise and conduct examinations of certain non-bank providers of digital wallets and...more

CCPA Update:  Agencies push ahead with enforcement as Superior Court delays new regulations

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) and California Office of Attorney General (OAG) are publicly pressing ahead with enforcement now that they have the authority to enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act...more

With July 1st in view, Google updates CCPA contract terms

Google updated its privacy terms earlier this month, shifting away from offering many of its advertising services on a “service provider” basis. With the change, Google states that its Customer Match, Audience Partner API,...more

What’s in the Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act?

Indiana’s Consumer Data Protection Act advanced in the state legislature last week and now heads to Governor Eric J. Holcomb’s desk. The bill mirrors comprehensive privacy legislation enacted in Virginia, Utah, and Iowa,...more

FCC Seeks Comments on Updates to CPNI Breach Reporting Rule

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”) is seeking comments on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to refresh its customer proprietary network information (“CPNI”) data breach reporting requirements...more

CPRA Update: California Privacy Protection Agency Votes to Begin Rulemaking Process

On Wednesday, June 8, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board voted 4-0 (with one member absent) to initiate the CPRA rulemaking process based on the draft regulations released on May 27th prior to the Memorial...more

New Bipartisan Federal Privacy Bill – Breakthrough, Too Late, or Both?

On Friday June 3, a bipartisan group of leaders from key House and Senate committees released a new “discussion draft” bill to establish nationwide standards for consumer privacy. The proposal (the American Data Privacy and...more

New California Draft Privacy Regulations: How They Would Change Business Obligations and Enforcement Risk

On Friday May 27, 2022, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board announced its next public meeting will be on June 8, 2022. The announcement simply stated the date of the meeting, that there are “some discussion...more

Ten Percent and Rising: Connecticut Becomes Fifth U.S. State to Enact Privacy Law

On Tuesday, Connecticut became the fifth state to pass comprehensive privacy legislation when Governor Ned Lamont signed “An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring” into law. Connecticut joins California,...more

California AG’s First CCPA Opinion Takes a Broad View of the Right to Access Inferences

In the first formal written opinion interpreting CCPA compliance obligations, California Attorney General Rob Bonta concludes that the CCPA grants consumers the right to know and access internally generated inferences that...more

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