The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA / CalPrivacy) Board decided that Rickenbacher Data LLC (d/b/a Datamasters) violated the California Delete Act by failing to register as a data broker: a USD 45,000 fine and a ban on selling Californians’ personal information. Case number and signature date verified against the archived original (2026-09-24).
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA / CalPrivacy) Board decided that S&P Global, Inc. failed to register as a data broker due to an administrative error: a USD 62,600 fine plus registration and compliance-audit procedures. Digital signature date 2025-12-30 extracted from the decision’s signature panel; case number verified (2026-09-24).
First batch of five enforcement/penalty cases from U.S. federal and California regulators in the fields of artificial intelligence, data privacy and data brokerage: three from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) — accuracy claims for AI content detection, an AI-enabled review platform, and an AI security-screening system — and two from the California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy, formerly CPPA) — CCPA privacy-notice violations and data-broker registration violations. Each entry carries the four required elements, with holdings quoted verbatim from official documents and direct official links.