On August 24, 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a settlement with Sephora, Inc. that included a fine of $1.2 million for alleged violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The settlement is...more
8/26/2022
/ California ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ,
Customer-Loyalty Programs ,
Data Collection ,
Data Sellers ,
Do Not Sell ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Information ,
State Attorneys General
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its anxiously-awaited judgment in the Schrems II case. The CJEU’s decision upheld the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) but, somewhat surprisingly,...more
7/21/2020
/ Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Data Collection ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FISA ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Personal Data ,
Safe Harbors ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
New privacy challenges await California businesses as they begin to develop plans to reopen after more than two months of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most businesses are required to fill out a county-specific safe...more
...On June 28, 2018, California passed AB 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), which will become effective January 1, 2020. Introduced just a week earlier in an effort to defeat a much stricter...more
7/3/2018
/ Consumer Protection Laws ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Governor Brown ,
New Legislation ,
Notice Requirements ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Portability ,
Right to Be Forgotten ,
State and Local Government
The data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management was one of the most serious and possibly one of the top ten largest data breaches of the 21st century, compromising background investigation records for some 22...more
12/5/2017
/ Article III ,
Clapper v. Amnesty International ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Debit and Credit Card Transactions ,
FISA ,
Identity Theft ,
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Retailers