Keypoint: Kentucky is the fifteenth state to pass consumer data privacy legislation with a bill that largely tracks the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act. On March 27, 2024, the Kentucky legislature passed the Kentucky...more
Keypoint: Last week, consumer data privacy bills passed out of the Vermont and Pennsylvania Houses, an Age-Appropriate Design Code Act variant bill passed out of the Vermont Senate, and bills advanced in Colorado, Maryland,...more
3/25/2024
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Keypoint: It was a very busy week with Kentucky on the cusp of passing a consumer data privacy bill, Maryland advancing consumer and children’s bills, and movement on bills in Minnesota, Vermont, Georgia, Maine, and New York....more
3/18/2024
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Keypoint: Last week, consumer data privacy bills advanced in Minnesota, Maryland, and Missouri, New Hampshire’s Governor signed SB 255 into law, Maryland’s AADC bill advanced in the Senate, and the Hawaii House passed a...more
Keypoint: Last week chambers in West Virginia and Georgia passed consumer data privacy bills while a VCDPA amendment bill focused on children’s privacy passed the Virginia legislature. Below is the sixth weekly update on the...more
Keypoint: Last week the Kentucky House passed a consumer data privacy bill, the Colorado House passed a biometric privacy bill, and Virginia moved closer to amending the VCDPA to add children’s privacy provisions.
Below is...more
Keypoint: Last week Wisconsin inched closer to passing a consumer data privacy bill, Colorado’s biometric privacy bill advanced out of committee, and several CCPA-amendment bill were introduced.
Below is the fourth weekly...more
Keypoint: It was a busy week for committee hearings as the 2024 session picked up speed heading into February.
Below is the second weekly update on the status of proposed state privacy legislation in 2024....more
2/5/2024
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Over the past few years, states have enacted numerous privacy laws, including broad consumer data privacy laws, children’s privacy laws, consumer health data privacy laws, and data broker laws. The enactment of so many...more
Keypoint: Although they are only draft regulations and not part of the formal rulemaking process, the drafts demonstrate the Agency’s intent to create extensive obligations for businesses subject to these regulations.
In...more
8/29/2023
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Keypoint: The Attorney General’s investigatory sweep focuses on how large California employers are handling the expiration of the CCPA’s employee data exemption.
On July 14, 2023, the California Attorney General announced a...more
Keypoint: Enforcement by the California Privacy Protection Agency of the new CCPA regulations will be delayed until March 2024, but the Agency can still enforce the CCPA statutory changes as of July 1, 2023....more
Keypoint: Oregon is the eleventh state to pass consumer data privacy legislation with a bill that is one of the strongest passed to date.
On June 22, 2023, the Oregon legislature passed the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act...more
Below is the twenty-third – and final – weekly update on the status of proposed state privacy legislation in 2023. With the legislatures in many states now adjourned for the year, we are concluding our weekly updates....more
Keypoint: Claims brought under the Washington My Health My Data Act’s private right of action will turn on whether a plaintiff can prove actual damages that were caused by a violation effecting the plaintiff’s business or...more
Keypoint: Last week the Florida legislature passed a consumer data privacy bill while the Texas legislature continued to advance both consumer data privacy and data broker bills....more
5/8/2023
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Popular ,
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Keypoint: With a private right of action, broad applicability to businesses of all sizes and types, a scope that is broader than its name suggests, and strong consent-based requirements and privacy rights, the Washington My...more
4/18/2023
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Private Right of Action ,
Right to Delete ,
Washington
In this episode of Data Privacy Unlocked, Husch Blackwell’s David Stauss discusses consumer data privacy with Texas Representative Giovanni Capriglione. Representative Capriglione is the primary author of the Texas Data...more
Keypoint: Pending the governor’s signature, Iowa will become the sixth state to pass consumer data privacy legislation.
On March 15, 2023, the Iowa House voted 97-0 to pass SF 262. The bill previously passed the Senate by a...more
Keypoint: With the Board’s approval secured, the Agency will now send the final rulemaking package to the Office of Administrative Law for review.
On Friday, February 3, 2023, the Board of the California Privacy Protection...more
Update your bookmark, we just released our 2023 State Privacy Law Tracker. With state legislatures starting to open for the 2023 session, lawmakers are already introducing CCPA-like consumer privacy bills....more
Until the federal government passes a preemptive federal privacy law, state legislatures will continue to be the driving force in the development of U.S. privacy law. While others have – appropriately – speculated on how the...more
The House Committee on Energy & Commerce reported out the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) last week and it is now eligible for a full House vote. If passed by Congress and signed by the President, the ADPPA...more
8/3/2022
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Keypoint: As currently drafted, the ADPPA’s private right of action provides U.S. citizens with the opportunity to enforce their privacy rights but limits lawsuits to federal court and provides covered entities and service...more
8/2/2022
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
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Keypoint: The House Committee on Energy & Commerce reported out the American Data Privacy and Protection Act by a vote of 53-2, referring the bill to the full House....more