On Sept. 23, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced that the state’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) had formally approved the CPPA’s wide-ranging package of revised and new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations, thereby confirming a Jan. 1, 2026, effective date.
Although the new rules do not contain a delayed enforcement
On July 1, 2025, the California attorney general (AG) announced a $1.55 million settlement (pending court approval) with Healthline Media, LLC (Healthline), who publishes Healthline.com, a health information website. This settlement marks the regulator’s continued focus on online tracking technologies for targeted advertising and the effectiveness of consumer opt-out systems. Importantly, this is the
As an unprecedented year drew its last, gasping breath, all one could know with any certainty going into 2021 was that the turbulence of last year had not met its end. With vaccine-mania sweeping the globe and obscuring most other newsworthy events, many may have overlooked the SolarWinds attack, which came to light in early
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)’s historic decision in Schrems II, in which the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was invalidated, requires businesses to rethink the mechanism they can rely on to transfer personal data from the EU to the United States and other countries. However, how the decision will be enforced remains