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By Adrianne Appel2022-08-25T18:47:00
Cosmetics retailer Sephora agreed to pay $1.2 million in the first public enforcement action under California’s landmark consumer privacy law.
Sephora violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and sold consumers’ personal data after they had requested their information not be sold, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a press release Wednesday.
The CCPA, which took effect in 2020, is the country’s first and only active comprehensive state data privacy law. Since the start of 2021, Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and Connecticut have passed privacy laws of their own, each set to take effect in 2023. Congress is considering whether a federal data privacy law is needed and how strong the protections should be.
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2024-02-22T12:54:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Food delivery company DoorDash agreed to pay a $375,000 fine as part of a settlement announced by California Attorney General Rob Bonta addressing alleged violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act.
2023-03-02T14:00:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Three years in, the promise of the California Consumer Privacy Act as a means of handing down eye-watering penalties against companies for data protection violations remains unfulfilled. And yet, the expanding U.S. data privacy legislation landscape is better for this.
2023-03-01T14:00:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act set to come over the course of 2023 strengthen the nation’s first comprehensive state privacy law to a benchmark no other states have yet to equal.
2024-07-26T19:18:00Z By Jeff Dale
RTX Corp., the parent company of Raytheon, disclosed in a public filing it has reserved $1.24 billion to resolve legacy legal matters with the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Department of State.
2024-07-26T15:51:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority issued a fine of $4.5 million (3.5 million pounds) against a U.K.-based subsidiary of crypto platform Coinbase for providing services to high-risk customers in violation of FCA rules.
2024-07-26T13:36:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Admera Health agreed to pay more than $5.5 million to resolve allegations first brought by two whistleblowers that it paid kickbacks to third-party contractors, the Department of Justice said.
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