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 ...

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 ...

Many of the earlier privacy laws to come on the scene were sectoral in their reach. The Privacy Act of 1974, for example, applies only to federal government agencies ...

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 ...

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 ...

The legislation also extends data privacy protections from children under 13 to those under 16, finally extending the same privacy protections for young children to teenagers and reflecting the hard ...

Illuminated has agreed to pay Connecticut $150,000, New York $1.7 million and California $3.25 million. In addition, Illuminate has agreed to implement practices to comply with student data privacy ...

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 ...

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