2024 was a busy year for state consumer data privacy laws in the United States. Seven states enacted comprehensive data privacy statutes throughout the year, and laws enacted in 2023 went into effect in Montana, Florida,...more
1/3/2025
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To round out this year’s series on new state consumer privacy laws, we are covering the statute passed by Kentucky earlier this year. Please also keep your eye out for our 2024 round-up article that will be published soon, as...more
1/2/2025
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It’s the season of lists and next on ours: Minnesota! This state joined 18 others to enact comprehensive data privacy legislation in recent years. To avoid being on the “naughty” list, make sure to review your compliance...more
Any chancery you might be impacted by the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA)? (See what we did there?) Impacted companies need to gear up and prepare for compliance as the DPDPA becomes effective on January 1, 2025....more
12/16/2024
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We are moving westward this week from Iowa to Nebraska in our series of articles providing in-depth summaries of state consumer privacy laws taking effect across the nation.
Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen (R) signed the...more
11/27/2024
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Iowa is next up in our series of articles providing in-depth summaries of state consumer privacy laws taking effect across the nation.
On March 28, 2023, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds (R) signed into law Senate File 262...more
11/20/2024
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Comprehensive consumer privacy laws continue to hit the desks of governors in states across the country, with nineteen state laws now on the books. Since we wrote our 2023 Round-Up on State Consumer Data Privacy Laws article...more
10/30/2024
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Florida has joined the growing list of states enacting comprehensive privacy laws. Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (“FDBR”) into law on June 6th. How does it compare?...more
6/12/2023
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Indiana's New Law is on the Books -
Last month, three more state legislatures passed comprehensive data privacy laws. Just this week, Indiana’s governor signed one of them - the Indiana Consumer Data Privacy Act (“ICDPA’) -...more
5/4/2023
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The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) goes into effect in a little over fourteen months and from a quick glance at our bullet points analysis you can see there is a lot to consider. One crucial...more
During 2016, amendments to breach notification laws in five states went into effect (California, Nebraska, Oregon, Rhode Island and Tennessee). And by the end of last year, well over twenty states had introduced or were...more