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California privacy agency enforcement focused on data minimization, web design

By Mike Swift ( May 22, 2025, 19:56 GMT | Comment) -- The California Privacy Protection Agency's two biggest enforcement cases this year, against Honda and clothier Todd Snyder, both involved data-minimization and “dark patterns” deceptive-design issues. That's not a coincidence, the privacy agency’s enforcement chief acknowledged this week, acknowledging that advisories the CPPA issued in 2024 about those two topics are key enforcement priorities for the privacy agency. When the California Privacy Protection Agency issued advisories last year detailing its “observations” that data-minimization abuses and “dark patterns” deceptive design were a problem, the CPPA didn’t explicitly warn those practices were an enforcement priority....

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