Healthline Media LLC, $1,550,000
Health-information publisher Healthline shared article-reading data indicating users’ specific health conditions with advertisers without honoring opt-outs. Largest CCPA settlement at time of resolution.
Case identifiers
- Respondent
- Healthline Media LLC
- Agency
- California Attorney General
- Announced
- 2025-07-01
- Monetary relief
- $1,550,000
- Case number
- California AG Case (2025)
- Statutes cited
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Key facts
- 1
Healthline shared article-reading data with dozens of advertisers, enabling inferences about users’ specific medical conditions.
- 2
Data included inference-ready events such as visiting an article on a specific disease.
- 3
Company failed to implement effective opt-out mechanisms including Global Privacy Control.
- 4
Largest CCPA settlement at time of resolution ($1.55M); later surpassed by Disney’s $2.75M settlement announced in February 2026.
Primary sources
Read the original government documents. These are the authoritative records, everything on this page is derived from them.
- California Attorney General press releasehttps://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-settlement-healthline
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Where this action sits in the tracker
- It is one of 4 state-AG actions among the 26 cases in this tracker.
- Of the 19 tracked actions with monetary relief, $1,550,000 ranks number 14 by amount.
- 1 tracked action was announced in 2025.
- It is one of 7 tracked health-data actions.
- It is one of 6 tracked adtech actions.
FAQ
What did the state-AG charge Healthline Media LLC with?+
Health-information publisher Healthline shared article-reading data indicating users’ specific health conditions with advertisers without honoring opt-outs. Largest CCPA settlement at time of resolution. The California Attorney General cited California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
How much did Healthline Media LLC pay?+
Healthline Media LLC had monetary relief of $1,550,000, announced on 2025-07-01. The settlement also imposed injunctive terms (see below).
Does the Healthline Media LLC settlement mean my data has been deleted?+
No, the order does not automatically delete your data. You retain any rights available under applicable state privacy law (CCPA, CPA, TDPSA, VCDPA, and others) to submit your own deletion request. OfflistMe can generate a user-reviewed request draft pre-addressed to the respondent’s privacy contact.
How can I read the original state-AG order?+
The California Attorney General press release is available at https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-settlement-healthline. The case / matter number is California AG Case (2025).