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Year in Review: CCPA Litigation Trends from 2023

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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

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10 Areas Of Privacy Law That Look Ripe For Change In 2021

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While still in its relative infancy, privacy law has quickly become a turbulent teenager, with constant change around the world. At a minimum, 2021 will require meaningful efforts to implement the changes of 2020, with a...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

No rest for the weary: cybersecurity and privacy enforcement actions heat up

Hopes that privacy regulators and litigants would grant a reprieve to businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic may prove ill-founded. On July 21, 2020, the New York Department of Financial Services announced its first...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

California Approves Final California Consumer Privacy Act Regulations

On Friday, August 14, California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved the final draft of the Attorney General’s (AG) regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s...more

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

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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 between $100-$750 per incident, even in the absence of...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

California Privacy Law Update—CCPA Enforcement Begins July 1, 2020

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As previously announced, the California Attorney General’s Office (“Cal AG”) will begin enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which came into effect on January 1, 2020, on July 1st. The Cal AG has...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Crossroads

CCPA Litigation Has Arrived and COVID-19 Will Not Delay Enforcement

Despite concerns expressed by the business community, enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will not be delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra recently...more

Carlton Fields

[Event] The California Consumer Privacy Act: What Do We Know and What Can We Expect? - March 3rd, Beverly Hills, CA

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California's sweeping new privacy law - the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) - went into effect on January 1, 2020. For companies subject to the CCPA, the law ushered in numerous obligations regarding personal...more

McDermott Will & Emery

California Attorney General Announces Historic $575 Million Settlement of Antitrust Suit Against Sutter Health

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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (AG Becerra) announced on Friday, December 20, 2019, the terms of a comprehensive settlement agreement reached with Sutter Health (Sutter), the largest hospital system in Northern...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

California's New Data Privacy Law Has National Reach

This month marks the start of a new year, a new decade, and a new era for data privacy in the United States. Companies nationwide are either scrambling to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) or wondering if...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

CCPA QOTD: What are the penalties for non-compliance with the CCPA?

Unless you have been living off the grid for the past year, you likely know that we are now down to 13 days and counting to the effective date of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We have received hundreds of...more

Hudson Cook, LLP

CCPA Advent: Waiting on the World to Change

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January 1, 2020, opens both a new decade and a new landscape in privacy regulation in the United States. On that day, the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, is set to become effective. The law will be the first of its...more

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Senate Commerce Committee Holds Hearing on Federal Privacy Legislation

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As many businesses occupy themselves with coming into compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) before the law’s effective date of January 1, 2020, Congress is renewing discussion of a possible comprehensive...more

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Proposed Regulations and Recent Amendments Clarify Compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act as Effective Date Looms

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The California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) is poised to become the strongest consumer privacy law in the United States when it goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA affords consumers unprecedented rights in...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

CCPA: Consumers and the Right to Sue

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) is a California privacy law that gives consumers, defined as natural persons residing in California, affirmative rights with respect to their data privacy. Namely, the CCPA...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Ding Dong the CCPA Private Right of Action is (Mostly) Dead!

Whether your favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz or The Princess Bride, we can all agree there is some good news about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) this Friday afternoon! SB 561 appears to have (mostly) died in...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Proposed Bill to Expand the CCPA’s Private Right of Action Likely Dead For the Year

• On May 16, 2019, the California Senate Appropriations Committee held Senate Bill 561 (SB-561) in committee, likely blocking its passage this term. • SB-561, co-authored by the California Attorney General, would have...more

Proskauer on Privacy

The California Senate is Not Ready to Expand the Consumer Right of Action

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Senate Bill 561’s smooth sail through the California legislature came to an end on Thursday, May 16. On the eve of the deadline for all fiscal committees to hear and report on the bills introduced in their house, the Senate...more

White and Williams LLP

Possible and Significant Changes Coming to the CCPA

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Enacted in June 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been criticized for its broad scope, the burdens it would impose on businesses, and its textual ambiguities. The legislation arose from a controversial...more

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Data Privacy Legislation in Other States

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As noted in our two prior alerts, CCPA Part 1 and Part 2, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is bringing GDPR-like data protection to the United States. Other states are now following suit. The California...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

SB 561 Aims to Make CCPA More Consumer-Friendly by Expanding a Private Right of Action and Removing the Right to Cure

Last week, California State Senator Jackson and state Attorney General Becerra introduced a new bill, Senate Bill 561. If passed, it will greatly expand the consumers’ right to bring private lawsuits for violations of the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

California Legislation Would Make CCPA Even Worse for Businesses

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New proposed legislation in California, backed by state Attorney General (“AG”) Xavier Becerra, would amend the new California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to make it easier for private plaintiffs and public officials to sue...more

Payne & Fears

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

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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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - September 2018

In this month's Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine recent trends and court decisions, including a new law in Ohio that provides a safe harbor from tort-based data breach claims if the company adopts certain security...more

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California Consumer Privacy Act: Potential Impact and Key Takeaways

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The California legislature unanimously approved and California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) on June 28, 2018. The CCPA is arguably the most far-reaching data...more

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