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 […]
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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 […]
California Joins the Neural Data Bandwagon
On August 31, the California assembly passed SB1223, which amends the CCPA/CPRA to include “neural data” as a type of sensitive data. SB1223, which is likely to become law, defines “neural data” as “information that is generated by measuring the activity of a consumer’s central or peripheral nervous system, and that is not inferred from […]
CPPA Board Declines to Advance CCPA Regulations to Formal Rulemaking; CPPA Highlights Enforcement Priorities
On July 16, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “CPPA”) board declined to advance to formal rulemaking California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) draft regulations on cybersecurity audits, risk assessments, automated decisionmaking technology, insurance companies and updates to existing regulations. The CPPA board voted against advancing the regulations during its board meeting when it also […]
California AG Announces $500,000 Settlement with Mobile Game App Company for Unlawful Collection and Sharing of Children’s Data
On June 18, 2024, California Attorney General (“AG”) Rob Bonta and Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto announced a settlement with a video game developer and publisher regarding allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and California’s Unfair Competition Law (the […]