CCPA Settlement Signals Focus On Web Tracking Health Data

In June 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a proposed settlement with Healthline, a health information website, for its handling of personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Specifically, Healthline utilized web tracking technologies, failed to allow users to opt out of such technologies from gathering data on their web activity, and sold that data, including the specific titles of articles visited by users, to third parties. Bonta's position is that these article titles, when paired with users' personal data, have the capacity to indicate users' medical diagnoses. Under the settlement, Healthline will pay $1.55 million in civil penalties and will be subject to certain injunctive terms relating to the linking of user data to article titles.