This week California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a new investigative sweep under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We have anticipated this sweep for some time based on the focus and the direction of a number of inquiries, investigations, and enforcement proceedings initiated by Attorney General Bonta’s office over the past 12-24 months. The […]
California Privacy & the CCPA
California Attorney General Delays Enforcement of CAADCA Amidst Legal Challenge
On March 4, 2025, the California Attorney General (AG) announced a further delay in the enforcement of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA) until April 5, 2025. Initially operative on July 1, 2024, CAADCA’s enforcement had already been postponed to March 6, 2025, due to a trade association’s challenge to the statute’s validity. This […]
State AGs Publish Guidance on How State Laws Apply to AI
On December 24, 2024 and January 13, 2025, the Oregon Attorney General’s Office and the California Attorney General’s Office published advisories (collectively, “Advisories”) explaining how existing statutes may be used to regulate, investigate and enforce against artificial intelligence (“AI”). These Advisories serve to remind AI developers, suppliers and users of heightened regulatory scrutiny of AI, […]
Top Ten Takeaways from California AG’s Healthcare AI Advisory
On January 13, 2025, California Attorney General (“AG”) Rob Bonta issued an advisory describing providers’ and businesses’ obligations related to the development, sale, and use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and automated decision systems (“ADS”) in the healthcare industry (“Advisory”). The Advisory puts healthcare providers, insurers, and businesses serving the healthcare industry on notice of the […]
CPPA Opens Formal Public Comment Period for CCPA Proposed Regulations
On November 22, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “CPPA”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and opened the formal comment period for its proposed regulations on updates to existing California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) regulations, cybersecurity audits, risk assessments, automated decisionmaking technology (ADMT) and the applicability of the CCPA to insurance companies. […]