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Companies that become victims of data theft or other data security breaches can be ordered in civil class action lawsuits to pay statutory damages between $100 and $750 per California resident and incident, or actual damages, whichever is greater, and any other relief a court deems proper, subject to an option of the California Attorney General ...
Violation of Articles 4(12), 9(1) GDPR and 33(1) GDPR by unauthorised disclosure of a mailing list containing 101 email addresses, and failing to notify this breach to the DPA. The email addresses constituted special category data revealing political party opinions. [69] [70] 2021-05 Locatefamily.com €525,000 The Netherlands
The GDPR is the strictest data privacy law in the world, with few exceptions and hefty fines. In California, these concerns manifested as the California Consumer Protection Act somewhat modeled on the EU’s GDPR. [11] The CCPA’s initial drafting and placement on the 2018 ballot was led by Alastair Mactaggart. [12]
In 1995, the EU passed the Data Protection Directive (DPD), which has recently been replaced with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a comprehensive federal data breach notification law. The GDPR offers stronger data protection laws, broader data breach notification laws, and new factors such as the right to data portability.
The general law has three categories of breaches of contract, which measure of the seriousness of the breach. In the absence of a contractual or statutory provision, any breach of contract is categorized: [3] breach of warranty; breach of condition; or; breach of an innominate term, otherwise known as an intermediate term.
The California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act is in §502 of the California Penal Code. According to the State Administrative Manual of California, the Act affords protection to individuals, businesses, and governmental agencies from tampering, interference, damage, and unauthorized access to lawfully created computer data and ...
Companies that are not physically located within California and conduct all of their business outside of the state may be exempt from the act. [17] However, if such companies enter California or begin engaging in transactions with California residents online, then they would be expected to comply with the act. [17]
California S.B. 1386 was a bill passed by the California legislature that amended the California law regulating the privacy of personal information: civil codes 1798.29, 1798.82 and 1798.84. This was an early example of many future U.S. and international security breach notification laws , it was introduced by California State Senator Steve ...