California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Civil Monetary Penalty

California Attorney General's Recent Enforcement of CCPA and COPPA

Venable LLP on 7/10/2024

On June 18, 2024, California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta announced a third CCPA enforcement settlement, this one with Tilting Point Media LLC. Tilting Point was allegedly using its mobile app game "SpongeBob: Krusty...more

Third CCPA Enforcement Settlement with California Attorney General and Los Angeles City Attorney Announced Against Mobile Game App

BakerHostetler on 6/24/2024

In a joint press release published on June 18, the California Attorney General and Los Angeles City Attorney announced a settlement with Tilting Point Media LLC (Tilting Point) in connection with alleged violations of the...more

California AG Announces Second CCPA Enforcement Action

WilmerHale on 3/1/2024

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

California’s Delete Act Creates Universal Deletion Requirement Aimed at Data Brokers

Cozen O'Connor on 10/19/2023

On October 10, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law California’s most recent foray into the world of consumer data privacy: the Delete Act. Targeting so-called data brokers, the Act expands on regulations already in place...more

Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs): Everything Corporate Legal Teams Need to Know

Reveal on 2/14/2023

Data is what makes the modern business world go around. But as the amount of data that organizations collect and process grows, so, too, do concerns about data security and how organizations respond to DSARs. These...more

California Privacy Law Nears Effective Date; Businesses Risk Million Dollar Penalties

Lerman Senter PLLC on 11/9/2022

The Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which amended the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), becomes fully effective on January 1, 2023. Businesses should review the new law and recent enforcement actions before the law...more

The Compliance Clock is Ticking: Prepare for the California Privacy Sprint to January 1st

Buchalter on 11/2/2022

The amended California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), sometimes referred to as the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) or Proposition 24, takes effect on January 1, 2023 – and introduces new consumer rights, while...more

New California Law Expands Pay Transparency and Reporting Requirements

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 10/17/2022

As of January 1, 2023, California will require most employers to disclose “pay scale” information in job postings. SB 1162 also imposes a host of new reporting and pay transparency requirements for larger employers, including...more

Glow Up or Blow Up: Five Takeaways from the CCPA Enforcement Action Against Sephora

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP on 9/21/2022

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

First Civil Penalties Under the CCPA Through $1.2 Million Settlement For Cookie “Sale” Violations

Benesch on 9/8/2022

The enforcement marks a step-up in scrutiny and enforcement as new amendments to the CCPA are set to come into force Jan. 1, 2023 and as enforcement moves from the CA Attorney General to the new California Privacy Protection...more

California Attorney General Bark Turns to Bite as First CCPA Settlement Includes Monetary Penalty

White & Case LLP on 9/1/2022

In a long anticipated development, on August 24 California Attorney General Rob Bonta ("Cal AG") announced the state's first monetary penalty under the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), in a settlement with the beauty...more

The Impact Of The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act

McGlinchey Stafford on 4/8/2021

On March 2, 2021, the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA). The new law makes Virginia the second state in the United States to enact a comprehensive data privacy regime,...more

New York’s DFS Publishes A Cyber Insurance Risk Framework

Husch Blackwell LLP on 3/9/2021

Keypoint: New York’s Division of Financial Services (DFS) now requires Property and Casualty Insurers writing cyber insurance to comply with the Division’s Cyber Insurance Risk Framework to manage their risk. In her...more

What is the maximum penalty that may be asserted by the California Attorney General for a violation of CCPA?

BCLP on 7/15/2020

$7,500 per violation. There is no private right of action for violations of the CCPA related to an individual’s right to be forgotten. The CCPA provides that the maximum fine that may be imposed by the Attorney General is...more

Update: April 2020 California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) Litigation Tracker

BCLP on 5/6/2020

Current trends in litigation stemming from the CCPA - As of January 1, 2020, California became the first state to permit residents whose sensitive personal information is exposed in a data breach to seek statutory damages...more

Evaluating the Insurability of CCPA Fines Assessed by the California Attorney General

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers on 3/13/2020

The insurability of civil fines imposed by the California Attorney General under the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA" or "the Act") has been an area of significant concern since the CCPA's enactment in 2018. The issue...more

A New Decade of HIPAA – What Can We Expect?

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 12/24/2019

As the decade winds down, it’s hard to believe that the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules are almost twenty years old. It has been ten years since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2019

Robinson & Cole LLP on 11/8/2019

Cyberliability insurance provider Beazley Insurance Company has analyzed its internal breach response data and determined that in its experience, there has been a thirty-seven percent (37%) increase in ransomware attacks this...more

Will California Law Permit Insurance Coverage for Civil Penalties Assessed Under the California Consumer Privacy Act?

White and Williams LLP on 8/14/2019

One of the most often discussed (and debated) aspects of the soon-to-be effective California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is that the CCPA provides for statutorily assessed civil penalties against any violators, up to $7,500...more

May 2019 IP Update: The California Consumer Privacy Act: More Relevant Than You Think

Sunstein LLP on 5/29/2019

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which we discussed last year, goes into effect on January 1, 2020. Its record-keeping requirements become effective on July 1, 2019. If your small- or medium-size business is based...more

Latest HIPAA Compliance & Enforcement Trends

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 4/25/2019

Enforcement activity by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) showed no signs of slowing throughout 2018 and has already picked up speed in 2019. More recent and significant actions...more

2018 Digital Health Data Developments – Navigating Change in 2019

McDermott Will & Emery on 2/5/2019

Data privacy and security legislation and enforcement saw significant activity in 2018 and early 2019. McDermott’s 2018 Digital Health Year in Review: Focus on Data report – the first in a four-part series – highlights...more

Keeping Up With the Risks and Protections of Cyber Insurance

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 11/7/2018

An obscure niche product less than a decade ago, cyber insurance is now a staple of many companies’ risk transfer programs. Its rise in prominence is no wonder. High-profile data breaches have caused businesses millions of...more

It’s No Secret: California’s New Consumer Privacy Law Goes Live in 2020 (Maybe)

Payne & Fears on 10/23/2018

Privacy activists cheered when, on June 28, 2018, Governor Brown signed into law the strictest consumer privacy law in the United States; the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). Effective January 1, 2020, the...more

The Significance to Businesses of the California Legislature’s Last-Minute Revisions to the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/10/2018

• The California Legislature passed SB 1121 to revise certain sections of the CCPA – the nation’s strictest privacy protection statute which provides Californians with a right to learn what personal information certain...more

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