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Rhode Island AG Targets Real Estate Management and Development Firm for Alleged Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices

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In mid-April, Rhode Island Attorney General (AG) Peter F. Neronha announced a settlement with A.R. Building Company, Inc. (ARBC), a national real estate management and development business with properties throughout Rhode...more

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New York AG Settles with School Calendar App, Saturn

This week, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement with app developer Saturn Technologies (Saturn) following an investigation into privacy practices that promised teens an exclusive community but...more

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Texas AG Brings First Ever Lawsuit Under a State Comprehensive Privacy Law

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On January 13, 2025, the Texas Attorney General (AG) announced a lawsuit against insurance company Allstate, and its subsidiary, Arity, for allegedly collecting, using and selling the geolocation and movement of Texan...more

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Update on Enforcement Actions: Connecticut Data Privacy Act

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In May of 2022, Connecticut joined a growing list of U.S. states passing privacy regulations when it signed the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) into law. The CTDPA officially went into effect in July 2023. On...more

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No Money, Mo’ Problems: DoorDash CCPA Enforcement Action Emphasizes Personal Information “Sales” Aren’t All About the Benjamins

The California Attorney General (“AG”) recently delivered (pun very much intended) a public CCPA enforcement action against DoorDash, its second following the 2022 settlement with Sephora. The DoorDash action stems from a...more

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Employers, Beware: California Regulators Are Actively Enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has been actively enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) since July 2023, when he announced an “investigative sweep” through inquiry letters sent to large California...more

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California AG Announces Second CCPA Enforcement Action

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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

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Bad Medicine: 5 Lessons from the Connecticut AG’s Report on CTDPA Cure Notices

On February 1, 2024, the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”) issued a Report to the General Assembly’s General Law Committee (“Report”), summarizing the OAG’s enforcement efforts during six months since the...more

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Pennsylvania AG Settles With Debt Services Law Firm

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Pennsylvania Attorney General (AG) Michelle Henry reached a settlement with attorney Erik Helbing and his business, Helbing Law Group, LLC, resolving allegations of deceptive advertising practices and failure to effectively...more

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NJ AG Enters into Consent Order with Mortgage Servicer

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On July 1,​​​​​​​ 2023, the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, Office of Consumer Protection (Division) entered into a consent order with a national mortgage servicer. According to the Division’s press release, the...more

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Attorneys General Bring Multistate Data Breach Settlement Against DNA Testing Lab

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On February 17, 2023, the state attorneys general of Pennsylvania and Ohio reached a settlement with Ohio-based DNA Diagnostics Center (“DDC”) for a 2021 data breach that affected 2.1 million individuals nationwide and...more

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Texas Enforcement of Biometric Law Focuses on Artificial Intelligence

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While many organizations are focusing their attention on compliance with the state consumer privacy laws becoming effective in 2023, they should keep in mind that the Texas Attorney General has now filed two cases in 2022...more

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California AG Announces First CCPA Settlement and There is More Enforcement to Come

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​​​​​​​The first California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) settlement was announced on August 24, together with a strong message from California Attorney General Rob Bonta regarding compliance with the CCPA. The settlement...more

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In First, Company Fined for Violating CCPA

Sephora, the cosmetics giant of the LVMH group, must pay a USD 1.2 million fine for failure to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), after receiving a warning from the California Attorney General and time to...more

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CA AG Announces First Public CCPA Enforcement Decision

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On August 24, 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (“CA AG”) announced a $1.2 million settlement with Sephora, Inc. (“Sephora”), marking the first announced enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act...more

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Mysteries Solved! California Attorney General Reveals CCPA First-Year Enforcement and Launches Consumer Complaint Tool

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Not since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, have people wondered more. Which companies were the early targets of the California Attorney General’s enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and on what...more

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State AGs Announce $4.2 Million Settlement with National Bank for Alleged CARD Act Violations

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On February 8, state ​Attorneys General for North Carolina, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (State AGs) announced a $4.2 million settlement ​with a national bank to resolve allegations that it overcharged...more

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Price Gouging Investigations Are Ramping Up–What Your Business Needs to Know

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Crisis can create opportunity for business, but not all those opportunities are legal. Shortly after Superstorm Sandy slammed the Northeast, we in the offices of the New York and New Jersey Attorneys General warned businesses...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.21.2020 | Top Story: Morgan Stanley Pays $13 Billion to Acquire E-Trade

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Morgan Stanley shook the financial world yesterday with the announcement that it’s planning to drop $13 billion on a deal to purchase online discount brokerage E-Trade—the “biggest takeover by a major American lender since...more

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