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Welcome to the Summer of Privacy! As we hit the middle of 2025, California is once again the focus of our attention, as both its legislators and regulators are attempting to square privacy protections with developing...more
On July 1, the U.S. Senate voted to fully remove the previously proposed ten-year moratorium on regulation of Artificial Intelligence by states (“AI Moratorium”), after the provision’s passage by the House. Despite a number...more
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
On May 8, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed into law Senate Bill 297 (SB 297), a bill that significantly revises the existing Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA). Although the MCDPA took effect on October 1, 2024,...more
Keypoint: Last week, Montana’s legislature inched closer to significantly revising its consumer data privacy law, Oregon’s consumer data privacy amendment bills advanced, and there were numerous developments with Arkansas’...more
California has again made headlines this week with two notable data privacy developments under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”): (1) the California Attorney General’s (“California AG”) announcement of a new...more
On February 12, 2025, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky) and Vice Chair John Joyce (R-Pa) announced the formation of 12-member working group tasked with developing comprehensive data privacy...more
As we enter a new year, the patchwork of US privacy laws continues to expand and become more complex. With the change in control of the White House and Congress, the prospects for a federal privacy law have grown even less...more
The Federal Trade Commission's first update in over a decade to its rules under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) did not bring the dramatic updates that some privacy advocates had requested. Instead, the...more
Perhaps no use case better exemplifies the rapidly evolving privacy law landscape in the US than the legal framework surrounding companies’ use of cookies, pixels, and other web trackers. The 119th Congress brings new...more
We are back for our sixth year of tracking proposed state privacy legislation and fifth year of providing weekly updates. As in past years, we will track proposed state privacy legislation through these weekly updates and our...more
Are you ready for the next set of US state privacy laws going into effect? Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, and New Hampshire are effective January 1, and New Jersey’s law go into effect two weeks later (January 15)....more
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
On December 5, 2024, the Colorado Department of Law (Department) adopted an amended draft of its latest proposed Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) regulations. This set of amended regulations follows a public comment period that...more
Amid intense focus on AI and a flurry of consumer privacy law updates, legislative activity has continued to change data breach notification requirements in a variety of ways. Similar to 2023, a handful of changes to...more
2024 seems like it is flying by. For those keeping track of US state “comprehensive” privacy laws you know that October 1 – a week away – brings the effective date of the Montana privacy law. The “big sky” state will join...more
In an era defined by rapid digital transformation and heightened concerns over personal data security, the landscape of consumer data privacy laws in the United States has evolved significantly. As of this writing, a...more
On May 24, 2024, Minnesota’s governor signed the 18th comprehensive state privacy law since California enacted the first comprehensive data privacy legislation in 2018. The Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (“MCDPA”) will...more
With state privacy laws continuing to increase, will the federal American Privacy Rights Act be adopted? Over 18 states have now enacted comprehensive state privacy laws, three of which go into effect on July 1, 2024, in...more
The 2024 New York State legislative session has concluded. The end of the session was largely overshadowed by Governor Hochul’s directive to the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) to halt the implementation of congestion...more
Minnesota’s governor has now signed into law that state’s comprehensive privacy law. For those keeping count – that is number 19 of state “comprehensive” privacy laws, with six in 2024 alone. The Minnesota law will go into...more
On May 24, 2024, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into law the nation's 19th comprehensive data privacy law, the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (the "Minnesota Act"), which will take effect on July 31, 2025. This law...more
We’ve cautioned before about the danger of thinking only about US state “comprehensive” laws when looking to legal privacy and data security obligations in the United States. We’ve also mentioned that the US has a patchwork...more
Just past midnight on May 11, 2024, the Vermont Legislature passed H.121, the Vermont Data Privacy Act (VDPA). If signed into law, the VDPA would become the most onerous state comprehensive privacy law in the country. Among...more
On May 19, 2024, the Minnesota Legislature passed a comprehensive privacy bill, sending the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA) to Governor Tim Walz’s desk for signature into law. The law, which would take effect...more