California's Delete Button Now Has a Meter on It: $200 Per Request, Per Day
Since 1 August, every registered data broker in California must check DROP at least once every 45 days and delete what it finds within 45 days. Miss o...
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California Just Voted to Take Away a Privacy Right — Retroactively
SB 690 passed both chambers on 28 August. It strips the private right of action from CIPA's pen register and trap-and-trace provisions for anything ha...
California Fined a Data Broker for Making Its Opt-Out Too Nosy — And That Is the Most Important Privacy Ruling of the Month
CalPrivacy hit two data brokers in three days. Cybba paid $52,400 for never registering. LocateSmarter paid $116,490 — partly for demanding your name,...
California's Delete Button Went Live Today — 600 Data Brokers, 300,000 Requests, $200 a Day
As of August 1, every data broker registered in California must check the state's DROP platform at least once every 45 days and delete the personal in...
California's Privacy Regulator Just Opened Its First Audit — and It Picked the Gig Economy
CalPrivacy announced its first formal CCPA compliance audit on July 21, targeting app-based transportation, delivery, and task platforms. It will exam...
California Just Fined GM $12.75M for Collecting Too Much Data — Not for Leaking It
California's $12.75 million settlement with General Motors is the largest CCPA penalty in state history — and the first built on the data-minimization...
GM Sold Your Location to Data Brokers While Claiming It Didn't. California Just Fined Them $12.75 Million.
General Motors earned $20 million selling OnStar driver location and behaviour data to Verisk Analytics and LexisNexis while its privacy policy told c...
Your Cannabis Dispensary Was Watching You — and Selling What It Saw
Stiiizy, California's largest cannabis retailer, secretly embedded tracking tools across its websites to monitor customer behavior, then sold that dat...