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The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) on Thursday announced that a data broker must shut down its business for three years for failing to comply with the state’s Delete Act, which requires certain brokers to register with the state. The requirement that the company, Background Alert, close its doors for failing to register is unprecedented.…

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California lawmakers are proposing to ratchet up the maximum criminal penalties for companies that violate the state’s antitrust law from $1 million to $100 million. A bill (SB 763) filed in the state Senate on Friday would strengthen California’s Cartwright Act, the more than 100-year-old law the state’s attorney general has used to sue companies…

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