A 1967 wiretapping law sparked 4,000 privacy lawsuits. Experts say the cases expose a “parallel universe” in California’s privacy laws.

AB 2101, sponsored by the California Privacy Protection Agency, never received a required policy committee hearing.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the “California Opt Me Out Act”, which will require web browsers to include an easy, universal way for users to opt out of ...

Class-action lawsuits alleging that companies violated a California privacy law by collecting data on visitors to their websites have seen a late-year surge, part of an ongoing trend in such lawsuits ...

General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties for selling driving data of hundreds of thousands of California motorists to data brokers, allegedly without their consent. The ...

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The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), enacted in 2020, was expected to establish a national model for data protection laws. But a new study from the University ...

Californians gained a powerful new tool this month to curb the collection and sale of their personal data, as one of the strictest privacy laws in the country officially took effect. The law allows ...

California is leading on kids’ data privacy in the U.S. but still lags internationally.