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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 31, and a third will take effect ...

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 law hasn't kept pace with these technical realities, and this gap impacts every American. More than ever before, as a privacy professional working on cutting-edge software systems, I believe ...

(TNS) — Who should be held liable when a person’s biometric data — their facial features, voice or fingerprints — is misused? Illinois is home to some of the strongest consumer privacy regulation in ...

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 ...

Top Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate released legislation that seeks to bolster consumer privacy laws in the state by limiting the type of data large companies can store and collect from ...