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CCPA Settlement, UCPA Case, and International Compliance Trends

Julie Rubash, General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer
July 7, 2025

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California AG Settles with Healthline Media Over Alleged CCPA Opt-Out Violations

Attorney General Bonta announced a $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media LLC over allegations that the healthline.com website publisher violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California’s unfair competition law. The complaint alleges that Healthline failed to allow consumers to opt out of the sharing of personal information (including titles of articles, such as “You’ve Been Newly Diagnosed with MS. What’s Next?”, suggesting that the reader may have a serious health condition) with third parties for targeted advertising, failed to have required contracts in place with third-party recipients of the information, and failed to limit the use of personal information to what is reasonably necessary or proportionate to achieve the purposes for which the date was collected, and offered a cookie banner that purported to allow consumers to disable advertising cookies but failed to do so.  In addition to the monetary settlement, Healthline will be banned from sharing article titles with third parties revealing that a person may have already been diagnosed with a medical condition.

TAKEAWAY

The following are two particularly notable aspects of the complaint in this case: 

Utah AG Sues Snap over Alleged Privacy Violations

The Utah Attorney General filed a complaint against Snap Inc. alleging, among other claims, violations of Utah’s comprehensive privacy law, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA). Specifically, the complaint alleges that Snap:

TAKEAWAY

Although not all of the claims are specific to children, the press release from the AG’s office indicates the platform’s young audience as a primary motivator for the lawsuit, which also included claims regarding alleged addictive features of the platform, highly sexual material in areas of the platform designated for teens, and lack of safety protocols in the My AI feature to prevent giving inappropriate advice to underage users. 

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