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State Comprehensive Privacy Law Update - April 2025 #2

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While March featured a flurry of newly introduced comprehensive privacy bills, state legislatures now appear to be primarily focused on pushing existing proposals through the chambers. ...more

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State Comprehensive Privacy Law Update - February 2025 #2

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Many state governments are in the thick of their legislative sessions and we continue to see a steady wave of comprehensive data privacy bills introduced. Most notably last week, Alabama representatives introduced HB 283...more

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State Comprehensive Privacy Law Update - February 2025

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So far into 2025, we continue to see productivity from state legislatures addressing consumer privacy, with 19 new state comprehensive privacy bills introduced across 10 state legislatures. It is still early in the...more

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Data Privacy Guide - USA - Ohio

Introduction - In recent years, Ohio has made unique and nationally-mirrored efforts toward advancing a goal of protecting the personal data of its residents. In addition to joining other U.S. states in 2005 by requiring...more

International Lawyers Network

Data Privacy Guide - USA - Illinois

Introduction - Illinois has enacted laws addressing rights and obligations related to data privacy. Companies and organizations that handle, collect, disseminate, or otherwise deal in nonpublic information have a number of...more

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U.S. Federal Privacy Bill Unveiled

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On April 5, 2024 members of U.S. Congress released a draft bipartisan, bicameral federal privacy bill, the American Privacy Rights Act. In a press release, the stated goal of this legislation is to be “a national data privacy...more

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Congress Introduces Promising Bipartisan Privacy Bill

U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) have made a breakthrough by agreeing on a bipartisan data privacy legislation proposal. The legislation aims to address concerns related...more

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State Comprehensive Privacy Law Update - February 2024

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The early weeks of 2024 have seen continued activity on the state comprehensive privacy law front. Since our last update, at least 11 new comprehensive privacy bills have been proposed. In particular, Georgia, Hawaii,...more

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What Businesses Need to Know About State Consumer Privacy Laws and Digital Accessibility

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In this latest installment of our ongoing consumer privacy series, we focus on potential digital and offline accessibility requirements in the context of the wave of new U.S. state consumer privacy laws. In the continued...more

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Now There Are 10: The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act

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Texas has joined the nine other states that have comprehensive data privacy laws after Governor Greg Abbott signed the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (the “TDPSA”). Subject to exemptions, the TDPSA applies to any entity...more

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Texas Consumer Privacy Law Nears Governor’s Signature

Texas will likely become the 11th state to pass a consumer privacy law. H.B. 4, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA), was passed by both houses of the Texas legislature last week, and the bill is now headed to...more

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New Legislation to Expand Privacy Obligations of Financial Institutions Introduced in Congress

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On February 27, 2023, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Patrick McHenry (NC-10) introduced the Data Privacy Act of 2023 (the Bill), which would amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) to “modernize[]...more

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State Comprehensive Privacy Law Update - February 2023

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The past two weeks have seen continued developments in the state comprehensive privacy legislative landscape. Maryland, Minnesota, and Texas have entered the fray with new proposals, bringing the total number of states that...more

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Modified CPRA Proposed Regulations Issued

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Keypoint: The California Privacy Protection Agency’s issuance of significantly modified proposed regulations comes days in advance of four scheduled Board meetings where the proposed regulations will open to debate,...more

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Congress Proposes Legislation Aimed at Data Brokers and Health Information

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On June 15, 2022, Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced Senate Bill S.4408, Health and Location Data Privacy Act of 2022 (the “Bill”). The Bill, co-sponsored with Senators Ron Wyden, Patty Murray, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Bernie...more

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Recent Congressional Privacy Proposals

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Last week, two bills were proposed in Congress aimed at improving consumer privacy protection. These proposals focus on specific areas of privacy law – health data that falls outside of HIPAA and do-not-track signals....more

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Massachusetts Legislature Evaluates Its Own Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Law

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The Massachusetts Information Privacy and Security Act (MIPSA) continues to advance through the state legislative process, and is now before the full legislature. While the Act has several hurdles to clear before becoming...more

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Comparison of the CCPA & CPRA with Pending 2021 Comprehensive Federal Privacy Legislation - H.R. 1816

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In the last year, we continued to see a shift in the privacy landscape of the United States, including the passage of comprehensive privacy legislation in both Virginia and Colorado, while other states still have bills under...more

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News Scan Finds Multiple Threats to Your Privacy

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Your personal information is threatened by more pernicious tools and attacks each year. While this blog often describes poorly written privacy laws stifling business and dangerous bureaucratic overreach by privacy...more

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Status Of Proposed CCPA-Like State Privacy Legislation As Of May 17, 2021

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Keypoint: This week the Colorado Privacy Act passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Alaska’s House Labor and Commerce Committee held another hearing on its bill, Connecticut’s bill was sent to the Senate...more

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Cyber Policy Legislative Tracker

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The bills listed reflect a relatively active cybersecurity agenda for the 117th Congress. As reflected in the proposed legislation, many Members are interested in focusing federal policy on matters such as supply chain...more

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Minnesota Considers Adopting a CCPA-Inspired Consumer Data Privacy Bill

Minnesota is the latest in a series of states to follow California's lead in proposing new legislation aimed at enhancing consumer data privacy. The bill, HF 36 would expand consumer rights over personal information, create a...more

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Canadian government introduces new privacy bill

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 23 (December 10, 2020) - The Canadian government introduced a bill into Parliament Nov. 17, the Digital Charter Implementation Act of 2020, that makes a number of changes and...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Contradictory Responses by Privacy Regulators Post-COVID-19: Balancing the Economy With Cybersecurity in a Changed World (Privacy)

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disparate effect on privacy regulators, with varying levels of enforcement advocated by different government entities; the California Attorney General, the U.S. Department of Health & Human...more

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Privacy and Data Security Alert l March 2020

Shook Weighs in on Updated CCPA Regulations - In response to extensive public comment, the California Attorney General’s office released modified draft regulations under the CCPA on February 7. Shook has provided initial...more

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