On May 25, 2024, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (the "Act"), which takes effect on July 31, 2025, for most controllers and on July 31, 2029, for certain postsecondary educational...more
6/5/2024
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Targeted Digital Advertising
On May 10, 2024, Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act of 2024 ("MODPA" or the "Act"), bringing the number of comprehensive state privacy laws to 18and establishing a new, more restrictive...more
5/16/2024
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Sunset Provisions
On January 16, 2024, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Senate Bill 322 ("the Act"), making New Jersey the fourteenth state to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy law, joining California, Virginia,...more
1/23/2024
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State Privacy Laws
The Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR) was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis on June 6, 2023, making Florida the tenth state to enact a consumer data privacy law along with California, Virginia, Colorado,...more
6/9/2023
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Consent ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
COPPA ,
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Data Protection ,
Data Retention ,
Data Selling ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Enforcement ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
Florida ,
New Legislation ,
Notice Requirements ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Sensitive Personal Information ,
Social Media
The Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA) passed unanimously through both houses of the Tennessee legislature and was signed by Governor Bill Lee on May 11, 2023. Tennessee joins seven states in enacting a comprehensive...more
5/16/2023
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Controlled Substances Act ,
COPPA ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
FERPA ,
Gramm-Leach-Blilely Act ,
HCQIA ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HITECH Act ,
New Legislation ,
NIST ,
Noncompliance ,
Personal Information ,
State Privacy Laws ,
Title V
INCDPA takes business-friendly approach to data privacy, following Virginia, Utah, and Iowa -
Indiana has become the seventh state to enact a "comprehensive" data privacy law, joining California, Virginia, Colorado,...more
With the unanimous passage of Senate File 262 by the Iowa House and Senate and the Governor's signature Tuesday, the Hawkeye State joins California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah as one of six states with a...more
3/31/2023
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Data Security ,
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Regulatory Reform ,
State Data Breach Notification Statutes ,
State Data Privacy Laws
The Office of the California Attorney General (OAG) announced on August 24, 2022, a settlement with Sephora, Inc., as part of a recent enforcement sweep of online retailers. OAG alleged Sephora violated the California...more
The California Privacy Protection Agency Board (the "CPPA Board") announced on May 27, 2022, that it would hold a public meeting on June 8 to discuss, among other things, a set of detailed proposed regulations to "Implement,...more
6/6/2022
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State Privacy Laws
Late last month, after two years of negotiation, the Connecticut legislature passed an omnibus data privacy bill, which the governor signed this week, making Connecticut the fifth state to enact comprehensive privacy...more
Update March 31, 2022: Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed the bill into law March 24, 2022.
With passage of the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), Utah will become the fourth state to adopt omnibus consumer privacy...more
The California Office of Attorney General (OAG) on March 10, 2022, issued its first opinion interpreting the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), addressing when businesses must disclose internally generated "inferences"...more
With passage of the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), Utah will become the fourth state to adopt omnibus consumer privacy legislation—following California, Virginia, and Colorado— when Utah Governor Spencer Cox signs the...more
On July 7, Colorado became the third state to enact comprehensive data privacy legislation, following California and Virginia. The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), modeled largely after its predecessor in Virginia (the Consumer...more
Last week, Alaska joined the growing number of states considering comprehensive consumer privacy legislation when, at the behest of Governor Dunleavy, the Consumer Data Privacy Act was introduced in both chambers of the...more
Virginia's legislature has set the stage for the Commonwealth to join California as one of two states with comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) pulls certain policy...more
2/23/2021
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Data Management ,
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Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
State and Local Government ,
Virginia
As expected, Californians voted on November 3, 2020, to adopt the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), better known as Proposition 24. The CPRA amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in subtle and significant ways...more
On the last day of its session, the California legislature passed six bills amending the CCPA, which Governor Newsom is expected to sign into law. ...more
On September 13, the California legislature passed six bills that would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Governor Gavin Newsom has one month to decide whether to sign them into law. ...more
9/26/2019
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Private Right of Action ,
Right to Delete
The Privacy Oracle consolidates significant US legislative and regulatory developments at the state and federal level into a single publication. In this month’s issue, we offer:
- An analysis of bills introduced in the 116th...more
4/29/2019
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Privacy Laws ,
Private Right of Action ,
Right to Delete