United States of America 50 states map. Emerging technology is becoming more intertwined with personal data in the U.S., and in 2025, more states are taking action to protect their residents' data.

Data privacy regulations such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and California’s Consumer Privacy Act have fundamentally changed how organizations ...

The state privacy law landscape in 2025 remained highly dynamic, even though no new states enacted omnibus privacy laws for the first time in years. Sweeping amendments and regulatory developments ...

The DPDPA applies to any entity that does business in the state or produces products or services that are targeted to residents of the state and that, during the previous calendar year, met one of the ...

For example, a social media platform specifically targeting children may have different obligations from an online retailer that only incidentally reaches children. There are also federal student ...

This checklist assumes the controller wants to ensure that the personal data rights it offers to individuals meet the requirements of all US state consumer privacy laws, including those with future ...

The recent introduction of the American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 (APRA) by Senate Commerce Committee Chair Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and House Energy and ...

It’s more critical than ever that businesses familiarize themselves with the ins and outs of these requirements, particularly considering that there does not appear to be momentum toward a federal ...

Legislators are ‘fired up’ about what they see as an actual chance at passing comprehensive privacy reform. Legislators are ‘fired up’ about what they see as an actual chance at passing comprehensive ...

The US Department of Justice is suing TikTok for violating a child privacy law and violating a 2019 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission for previous privacy violations. The lawsuit stems from ...

New state privacy laws don't do enough to protect personal information used by financial businesses, a federal regulator says. Eighteen states, including California and Texas, passed privacy laws ...

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