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...
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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...