State Law Privacy Video Series | Privacy and Sensitive Information
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Do you know what cookies your company’s website is using? If not, you likely do not know whether your company’s website is honoring users’ data protection choices involving the use of cookies. You should know and care so your...more
The amendment to the Colorado Privacy Act, expanding the scope of sensitive data, goes into effect August 6, 2024. The law will now include as sensitive information biological data that is used for identification purposes....more
Rhode Island is the latest state to enact consumer privacy legislation. The Rhode Island Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (the "Act"), which passed into law on June 28, 2024, establishes a framework for controlling and...more
As of July 1, three new comprehensive state privacy laws – the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR), the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA), and the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) – will take effect, joining the...more
Recent U.S. developments indicate a growing focus on regulating and investigating the data privacy practices of companies in the automotive sector. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently highlighted in a blog post its...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
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
Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act of 2024 (MODPA) into law on May 9, 2024. This new law establishes transparency, assessment, and consumer rights requirements for organizations that fall...more
The list of U.S. state-level data privacy laws will grow substantially this summer as three more comprehensive state laws become effective. Texas, Oregon and Florida each have a comprehensive data privacy law taking effect on...more
On April 6, 2024, Maryland's legislature passed a comprehensive privacy bill, the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), and sent it to the state's governor for signature. If enacted, the law would take effect on October...more
On April 17, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed into law a bill that will extend privacy rights to individuals’ neural data. Although certain states have enacted privacy laws that include protection of sensitive and...more
With the Kentucky governor recently signing into law that state’s privacy law the US now has 16 states with “comprehensive” privacy laws. This newest one will go into effect on January 1, 2026 – the same day as Indiana. It...more
Keypoint: Maryland’s bill diverges from other Washington Privacy Act variants passed to date with unique data minimization, sensitive data, minor’s data privacy, and unlawful discrimination provisions (among others)....more
The amended version of the bill—which itself amends Colorado’s Privacy Act—now heads for final passage and governor signature. The Colorado state legislature is close to final passage of the “Act Concerning Protection the...more
New Hampshire is the fourteenth state with a comprehensive privacy law, as signed by Governor Sununu on March 6, 2024. The new law will go into effect on January 1, 2025. Continue reading for our Q&A on the "trusted" number...more
New Jersey recently became the first state to pass a comprehensive privacy law in 2024. New Jersey is the thirteenth state to pass such a law—and yet another comprehensive privacy law is making its way through New Hampshire’s...more
On January 16, 2024, New Jersey became the first state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law in the new year, with Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) signing the New Jersey Privacy Act (NJPA) (SB 332) into law. The New Jersey law...more
Connecticut was one of the first U.S. states to pass a comprehensive data privacy law back in May 2022. Today, a total of 13 states have passed similar laws, and dozens of other states are proposing legislation to do so as...more
On January 16, 2024, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Senate Bill 332 (the "New Jersey Data Privacy Law") making New Jersey the thirteenth state to adopt comprehensive data privacy legislation. This signing...more
On January 16, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) of New Jersey signed Senate Bill No. 332 into law. The New Jersey privacy law generally follows the same framework found in many of the comprehensive privacy laws enacted by other states...more
On January 16, 2024, New Jersey’s Governor Murphy signed New Jersey’s comprehensive state privacy law. New Jersey is the thirteenth state to adopt comprehensive consumer privacy protections. With Congress unlikely to pass a...more
On January 16, 2024, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the first comprehensive state privacy law of 2024 (SB 332). As states wait for federal privacy legislation to materialize, New Jersey's legislation becomes...more
On January 8, 2024, the New Jersey Assembly and Senate passed Senate Bill 332 (S. 332, or the “Act”), and it was signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy on January 16. This makes New Jersey the first state to enact a...more
On January 8, 2024, the New Jersey legislature passed the New Jersey Data Privacy Act (NJDPA). The bill, SB 332, will soon head to Governor Phil Murphy’s desk for signing. Assuming the bill is signed quickly, it will go into...more
Global Privacy Controls, vendor management, sensitive personal information, and the use of Ad Tech; new U.S. state data protection laws introduce twists to traditional notions of American data protection law. In the U.S.,...more