California Attorney General Rob Bonta has reached a $1.2 million settlement with Sephora USA Inc. that resolves claims the cosmetics company violated state privacy laws.

A proposed judgment that was expected to be filed in San Francisco County Superior Court Wednesday accused Sephora of failing to tell consumers that it was selling their personal information. Sephora also declined to honor customers’ requests to opt out of such sales, and when warned by the attorney general’s office about potential violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act, the company failed to fix them within 30 days as required by law, Bonta told reporters at a press conference.

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