The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced a $55,400 fine Tuesday against Accurate Append for failing to register as a data broker and pay the annual fee required by the state’s Delete Act (see 2507290031). The CPPA's latest fine signals the agency's crackdown on data brokers, said Troutman Amin law clerk Tammana Malik in a blog post. However, a study last month on California data brokers argues they largely ignore regulation.
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA fined Washington-based Accurate Append $55,400 for failing to register as a data broker and pay the annual fee required by the state’s Delete Act. The company failed to register by the Jan. 31, 2024 deadline for its 2023 activities, and only registered after the Enforcement Division contacted Accurate Append, the CPPA alleged.
Recent settlements show the vulnerability of companies that hire privacy vendors and think they're in compliance, Frankfurt Kurnit attorneys said during a webinar Thursday. In addition, they noted that states besides California are becoming more active in privacy litigation and enforcement.
The Connecticut attorney general's office is shifting from focusing on transparency and facial requirements to more in-depth work, examining whether organizations' privacy mechanisms are working and in compliance, three assistant attorneys general said during an IAPP KnowledgeNet event Tuesday.
Texas investigated data practices of more than 200 companies and issued “dozens of privacy violation notices” under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act during the past year, said Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in a Monday press release touting his office’s privacy accomplishments.
Healthline apparently violated “the gossip test for sensitive data” when it shared with advertisers titles of articles that individual users were reading, which effectively suggested they had certain medical diagnoses, Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, IAPP managing director for Washington, D.C., posted on the privacy association’s website Friday.
Ireland's first mass-litigation case could have major implications for tech companies that process data under the General Data Protection Regulation, Pinsent Masons commercial litigation attorney Zara West blogged Thursday.
As state attorneys general significantly increase technical hiring in pursuit of more sophisticated enforcement of privacy laws, companies should prepare for a similar raising of the regulatory bar in AI and other tech areas, said Brownstein Hyatt lawyers in a blog post Wednesday.
As laws and enforcement continue in the privacy and AI space, companies must pay attention to detail, panelists said during a webinar that vendor TrustArc hosted Tuesday.
The Department of Health & Human Services’ latest Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act settlement suggests the Trump administration will continue focusing on compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule, health care privacy attorneys told us in interviews.