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
4/21/2025
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The states bounced back from a somewhat quiet previous biweekly update with several noteworthy developments in the last two weeks. A total of five new state comprehensive privacy bills were introduced in Maine (LD 1224),...more
4/8/2025
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In a press release on March 10, 2025, California Attorney General (“California AG”) Rob Bonta announced an investigative sweep focusing on California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) compliance within the location data...more
3/27/2025
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As we progress deeper into the 2025 legislative season, comprehensive privacy law proposals continue to progress through the legislative process. In the weeks since our last update, Kentucky amended its comprehensive data...more
3/24/2025
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As the legislative season continues, some states, like Georgia and Oklahoma, have continued to progress in the efforts to establish a comprehensive data privacy law while others, such as Alabama, Illinois, and Massachusetts,...more
3/10/2025
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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
The first class action complaint was filed under Washington’s My Health My Data Act (“MHMDA”) on February 10, 2025, more than a year after the law’s passage. When the law passed in April 2023, MHMDA was novel for its broad...more
2/21/2025
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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
In the final days of the Biden Administration, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“HHS OCR”) remained active in resolving a large number of investigations, reflecting the agency’s...more
State legislatures kept busy last year, passing seven new comprehensive privacy laws, and wrapping up 2024 with a total of nineteen state comprehensive laws imposed across the country....more
2024 was another year of substantial legislative and regulatory advances at the international, federal, and state levels with regard to data protection law. Artificial intelligence (AI) regulation continued to hurdle forward...more
1/16/2025
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On December 5, the Colorado AG’s Department of Law (“Department”) completed its most recent round of rulemaking and adopted a new set of rule amendments for the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”). On December 17, the adopted rules...more
On December 3, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced two enforcement actions against large data aggregator companies, Mobilewalla, Inc. (“Mobilewalla”) and Gravy Analytics Inc. (“Gravy Analytics”), for alleged...more
In the past month, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced that it was beginning a public investigative sweep of data broker regulatory compliance and reached settlements with two data broker companies just...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.
Gone are the days where marketing...more
10/29/2024
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Colorado continues to be active with regard to its comprehensive privacy law. September 25, 2024 kicked off the official public comment period on the proposed draft amendments to rules promulgated under the Colorado Privacy...more
August 20, 2024 signaled the end of the California Privacy Protection Agency’s (CPPA) Notice of Proposed Regulatory Action (NPRA) comment period for Senate Bill 362, also known as the Delete Act (the “Act”)....more
9/11/2024
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been actively flexing its authority as a privacy regulator in recent months. The agency has been especially focused on identifying data practices it views to be “unfair”, thereby...more
9/9/2024
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The 2024 state legislative season is drawing to a close with several notable developments on the comprehensive privacy law front. Since our last update, the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act and Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy...more
The final weeks for many state legislatures have witnessed significant movements in the U.S. data privacy landscape. Last month, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed the Data Privacy Act, LB1074, into law....more
5/22/2024
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As we move closer to the end of many states’ legislative sessions, a number of comprehensive privacy law proposals continue to work their way through the legislative process. Since our last update, Nebraska became the...more
On April 7, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Chair of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair, and Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and...more
The opening weeks of spring have seen comprehensive privacy law proposals continue to progress in state legislatures across the country. Since our last update, the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (HB 15) received a...more
As we progress deeper into the 2024 legislative session, developments in the comprehensive privacy law arena have continued apace. In the weeks since our last update, New Hampshire formally joined the ranks of states with...more
In the weeks since our last update, we have seen continued progress in several state legislatures on comprehensive privacy legislation. Most notably, legislative chambers in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Georgia have passed...more