The state legislatures remain extremely active on privacy legislation this year. One new state comprehensive privacy law took effect on July 1, one takes effect July ...

More states are passing laws to protect information generated by a person's brain and nervous system as technology improves the ability to unlock the sensitive details of a person's health, mental ...

In 1998, the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act became law. COPPA was designed with the future of the Internet in mind. Dotcoms were fast on their way to ...

Some jurisdictions define a child as anyone under 18 years old, but certain privacy laws limit protection to individuals under 13 years old. States may also include separate definitions for terms like ...

July 1 marked the official enforcement date of the Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA), the state’s comprehensive consumer privacy law. Signed into law in 2023, TIPA grants consumers specific ...

December 23, 2025 - Over the past several months, I have handled more cross-border data issues than I have in my whole career. This phenomenon only reinforces what I've known for some time: In this ...

Finnegan’s Lynn Parker Dupree and Baker McKenzie’s Lothar Determann discuss a wave of new state laws regarding brainwaves tracked by wearable devices, or data derived from the activity of a person’s ...

The number of individual US states with local data privacy legislation on their statute books has expanded rapidly in 2025, with nine more state laws coming into effect this year and three more states ...

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

The role of the Data Protection Officer (DPO) continues to evolve across Europe. In early 2026, the European Data Protection Supervisor published new guidance and binding rules. These aim to ...