Updated with information on significant expansions to the Connecticut and Montana data protection laws. The post U.S. state ...

Nine state-level data protection laws have come into force in the US this year, and three more are slated for January 2026.

State legislatures have continued to enact privacy laws aimed at protecting kids and teens despite significant—and often successful—legal challenges that largely focus on First Amendment flaws. Some ...

Video streaming platforms are booming, harvesting an abundance of user data that can be used for targeting ads. That’s ...

"Plaintiffs have gone after online chat, search functions, cookies, pixels—virtually anything on a website involving a third party," BakerHostetler's Justin Yedor said. With online privacy laws soon ...

Just because no state passed a new comprehensive privacy law in 2025 does not mean that there was no data protection legislative activity. Indeed, this is likely one of our longest yearly updates.

The case was the first enforcement action under Connecticut's Student Data Privacy Law and California's K-12 Pupil Online ...

Ring cameras have a poor track record with user privacy, and now the EFF says a new face-scanning tool breaks state-privacy ...

Smart Doorbell Audio Recording Without Notice Ring's video doorbells can record audio from considerable distances, creating ...

Louisiana’s Board of Ethics is facing a major test over a new privacy law that lets judges—and soon hundreds of other elected officials—demand their home addresses, spouse’s work information and other ...

The Online Data Privacy Act, or MODPA, bans the sale of sensitive data such as gender, race and citizenship status — the first state to do so.