As the 2025 summer heat continues and as state privacy laws continue to mature, enforcement actions are beginning to shape the compliance landscape for businesses nationwide—from the coast of California to the shores of...more
The TAKE IT DOWN Act (the Act), enacted on May 19, 2025, is a powerful (and controversial) new tool designed to stop people from sharing “nonconsensual intimate imagery,” or NCII, online.
The Act does two main things: it...more
7/14/2025
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In May 2025, Montana enacted Senate Bill 163 (SB 163), amending that state’s Genetic Information Privacy Act (MGIPA) to include protections for neurotechnology data—namely, data collected from the activity of the central or...more
6/10/2025
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U.S. privacy law continued to expand in 2024, both geographically and substantively.
We now have 19 states with comprehensive consumer privacy laws (some of which are already in effect, while others become effective in...more
12/18/2024
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