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E8: Interview with Cookiebot CEO on Technical Solutions to GDPR Readiness
While most state legislatures are wrapping up their legislative sessions with little fanfare, Massachusetts appears to just be getting started. On May 12, 2025, the Bay State introduced the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act (S...more
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
Keypoint: The attorney general’s office modified the Colorado Privacy Act Rules to create a process for issuing opinion letters and interpretative guidance and to address the biometric and children’s privacy amendments passed...more
On 14 November, and after many years of negotiations, Chile adopted a new Data Protection Act (la Ley que regula la protección y el tratamiento de los datos personales y crea la Agencia de protección de datos personales)....more
They say everything is bigger in Texas which includes big privacy protection. After the Texas Senate approved HB 4 — the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”), on June 18, 2023, Texas became the eleventh state to...more
On April 4, 2024, Kentucky’s Governor signed House Bill 15, which establishes a consumer data privacy law for the state. The state joins New Hampshire and New Jersey in passing comprehensive consumer privacy laws in 2024....more
On March 6, 2024, New Hampshire’s Governor signed Senate Bill 255, which establishes a consumer data privacy law for the state. The Granite State joins the myriad of state consumer data privacy laws. It is the second state in...more
On June 30, the Delaware legislature passed the Personal Data Privacy Act (“the Act”). The Act now moves to the Delaware Governor’s desk for consideration and, if signed into law, will make Delaware the seventh state this...more
Texas became the latest state to pass comprehensive consumer data privacy and security legislation when Governor Abbot signed the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act into law on June 18. It will require businesses to take...more
As we move into the summer months, state comprehensive privacy law developments continue to steadily emerge. Most notably, in the weeks since our last update, the Texas legislature passed the Texas Data Privacy and Security...more
Florida is expected to be the tenth state to pass comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. The Florida Digital Bill of Rights was approved by the state legislature earlier this month and is expected to soon be signed by...more
Montana and Tennessee are the latest states to pass data protection laws under a “controller” and “processor” model as 2023 is proving to be a year of Privacy and Security overhaul. With 2023 showing no signs of slowing...more
Keypoint: The Indiana legislature is the seventh state legislature to pass consumer data privacy legislation. On April 13, 2023, the Indiana legislature passed SB 5. The bill largely tracks the Virginia Consumer Data...more
The new year has already seen a flurry of state privacy law activity, with legislators in at least nine states (Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Tennessee) proposing new...more
The Colorado attorney general’s office sent shockwaves throughout the privacy world on September 30, 2022, when it published its proposed Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) draft rules (Draft Rules). The Draft Rules are complex and...more
Legislation was introduced this week that, if passed, would create the Ohio Personal Privacy Act. HB 376, initiated by Lt. Governor Jon Husted, was introduced this week by Representative Rick Carfagna (R- Westerville) and...more
On May 13th, New York State Senator Kevin Thomas, Chair of NY’s Consumer Protection Committee, reintroduced the New York Privacy Act (“NYPA”), a comprehensive consumer privacy law similar in kind to the California Consumer...more
Update: Like several other state privacy bills introduced this year, SB 893 died in chamber. Connecticut is the latest state to introduce consumer privacy legislation. If enacted, the Connecticut Act Concerning...more
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed the Consumer Data Protection Act (the “Act”) on March 2, 2021. The following are answers to some frequently asked questions about the Act and its impact on organizations doing business...more
No. The scope of the right to be forgotten under the CCPA and the GDPR differ in three important ways. First, the CCPA states only that a business may have to delete the information that it obtained “from” the consumer....more