The CPPA is the first US agency dedicated solely to privacy, with rulemaking and audit powers no other state regulator has. This hub covers its rulemaking and enforcement decisions.
CPPA
September 7, 2026
Proposition 24 established the California Privacy Protection Agency in December 2020, but the power to write CCPA regulations did not move to it on that date. The transfer was conditional, it completed in April 2022, and the Attorney General's own regulatory authority was never extinguished. This traces the grant, the condition, the board that exercises it, and what the agency has adopted.
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Data Brokers
September 1, 2026
California's Delete Act took an existing registry and attached machinery to it: one consumer request that reaches every registered broker, a 45-day processing cycle, a triennial third-party audit and a $200-a-day fine for not signing up. This reports what SB 362 and the 2025 amendment require, and the dates the statute and the DROP regulations set.
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CCPA / CPRA
September 1, 2026
California is the only state whose comprehensive privacy law has produced a substantial public enforcement record, and it has two enforcers producing it. This charts the twelve publicly documented CCPA actions, the penalty in each, the document each rests on, and the allegations that recur across almost all of them.
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