- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Adrianne Appel2022-08-25T18:47:00
Cosmetics retailer Sephora agreed to pay $1.2 million in the first public enforcement action under California’s landmark consumer privacy law.
Sephora violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and sold consumers’ personal data after they had requested their information not be sold, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a press release Wednesday.
The CCPA, which took effect in 2020, is the country’s first and only active comprehensive state data privacy law. Since the start of 2021, Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and Connecticut have passed privacy laws of their own, each set to take effect in 2023. Congress is considering whether a federal data privacy law is needed and how strong the protections should be.
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Food delivery company DoorDash agreed to pay a $375,000 fine as part of a settlement announced by California Attorney General Rob Bonta addressing alleged violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act.
Three years in, the promise of the California Consumer Privacy Act as a means of handing down eye-watering penalties against companies for data protection violations remains unfulfilled. And yet, the expanding U.S. data privacy legislation landscape is better for this.
Changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act set to come over the course of 2023 strengthen the nation’s first comprehensive state privacy law to a benchmark no other states have yet to equal.
Three former executives of Chicago-based Outcome Health, a healthcare technology company, were sentenced for misleading an auditor, clients, lenders, and investors about a scheme to sell $45 million in overbilled advertisements.
A home health company operating in Indiana, Ohio, and Texas agreed to pay nearly $4.5 million to settle allegations it filed false claims by giving sports tickets and other kickbacks to assisted living facilities in exchange for referrals.
Crypto-friendly Silvergate Bank will pay a total of $63 million penalties to California and the Federal Reserve Board to settle charges that its anti-money laundering program failed to properly monitor more than $1 trillion worth of customer transactions.
