California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Data Breach, Corporate Counsel

Disclosure of Data Through Website Cookies May Be a Data Breach – What A Recent Court Ruling Means for Healthcare Businesses

Fisher Phillips on 8/14/2024

A California federal court recently ruled that disclosure of certain data collected through website cookies that may qualify as health information could trigger a data breach under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) –...more

Year in Review: CCPA Litigation Trends from 2023

WilmerHale on 3/4/2024

This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is most known for its onerous privacy compliance obligations, the law also...more

Connecticut Likely to Become Fifth State to Enact Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Law

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 5/4/2022

When the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) became law, it was only a matter of time before other states adopted their own statutes intending to enhance privacy rights and consumer protection for their residents. ...more

The BR Privacy & Security Download: April 2022

Blank Rome LLP on 4/8/2022

Welcome to this month's issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice. We invite you to share this resource with your colleagues and visit...more

California Consumer Privacy Act, California Privacy Rights Act FAQs for Covered Businesses

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/20/2022

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), considered one of the most expansive U.S. privacy laws to date, went into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA placed significant limitations on the collection and sale of a...more

8 Key Takeaways for Initial Defenses Under the CCPA and CPRA

BakerHostetler on 10/8/2021

Since the Jan. 1, 2020 kickoff for private enforcement under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), plaintiffs have filed scores of class actions invoking the CCPA. Such claims, when properly made, present substantial...more

JPML Articulates Limitations for Consolidation in Geico Data Breach Litigation

Troutman Pepper on 10/8/2021

Despite overlap of alleged putative nationwide class definitions, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) denied Geico’s attempt to consolidate five class-action lawsuits arising from a data breach notification...more

CCPA Breach Class Action Settlement About to Get “Minted”

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 5/21/2021

Although the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) went into effect on January 1, 2020 and over 100 class actions referencing the CCPA have been filed to date, very few class actions have actually made their way to...more

Key Developments in CCPA Litigation for Q1 2021

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 5/5/2021

As we move deeper into the second year of CCPA litigation, the substantive issues continue to develop and we remain focused on the patterns and implications of recent filings and rulings. In this post, we highlight notable...more

Win for Walmart as District Court Gives Strict Reading to CCPA

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 3/19/2021

In a win for data privacy defendants, Walmart secured a ruling that favors a narrow interpretation of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). In Gardiner v. Walmart Inc. et al, 4:20-cv-04618-JSW, a Walmart customer,...more

Federal Court Dismisses CCPA Claim Against Marriot International, Inc. For Lack of Standing

Ballard Spahr LLP on 1/18/2021

On January 12, 2021, the federal District Court for the Central District of California dismissed a data breach law suit—including a claim filed under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)—against Marriott...more

First Classwide Settlement Involving CCPA Statutory Damages Provides Little Guidance Moving Forward

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 12/3/2020

For those of us waiting to see how the CCPA's statutory damage provision would impact the value of data breach class actions, the wait continues. Three of the first consumer class actions alleging CCPA violations for a...more

Prop 24 (California Privacy Rights Act) Extends CCPA’s Anti-Discrimination/Retaliation Provision To Employees, Applicants, And...

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 11/13/2020

During the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (“CCPA”) amendment process prior to enactment, personal information in the employment context was highly contested and has continued to be a point of deliberation even after the...more

Can Companies Be Liable If Third-Party Contractors Suffer Data Breaches?

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 9/4/2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act became effective on Jan. 1. Included among its provisions is the grant of a private right of action on behalf of any consumer “whose nonencrypted and nonredacted personal information…is...more

The Minted Complaint: Another Case Brought Under the CCPA’s Private Right of Action

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 7/23/2020

Well before the California Attorney General’s power to enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) commenced on July 1, 2020, as we have recently reported, private plaintiffs had already jumped into the fray, suing...more

A New CCPA Data Breach Lawsuit Is “Minted”

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 6/17/2020

Online stationery and craft company Minted Inc. has been hit with a CCPA class action lawsuit, stemming from a massive data breach the company disclosed in late May. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed in a California...more

Five Things to Do Now to Prepare for the CCPA Enforcement Deadline on July 1, 2020

Allen Matkins on 5/22/2020

As you likely know, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA is revolutionary legislation relating to California consumers’ rights in their Personal Information (as...more

Importance of CCPA Compliance Highlighted by First Round of Private Actions

McDermott Will & Emery on 5/20/2020

The first wave of California Consumer Privacy Act litigation has begun to roll in, and the complaints are already raising interesting questions about the scope of CCPA’s private right of action. The actions assert a variety...more

The First Wave of CCPA Class Action Litigation

Fisher Phillips on 3/11/2020

California’s all-inclusive privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect on January 1, 2020, has already been cited in numerous lawsuits. Over this next year, employers are likely to see lawsuits...more

The First Wave of CCPA Allegations Makes Its Way Into a New Data Breach Class Action Against Salesforce and Hanna Andersson

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 2/6/2020

The companies Salesforce.com, Inc. and Hanna Andersson, LLC are on the receiving end of a novel lawsuit, which appears to be the very first data breach class action ever filed with alleged violations of the California...more

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