Between 2020 and 2024, 20 states enacted comprehensive data privacy laws, and many observers assumed 2025 would see continued proliferation.

A new tool from North Dakota, the State Data Hub, aims to help officials leverage data to better support residents. The state’s new data hub aims to serve as a centralized place for leaders to share ...

While most state data breach notification statutes contain similar components, there are important differences, meaning a one-size-fits-all approach to notification will not suffice. What’s more, as ...

The continued absence of a comprehensive federal privacy law once again positioned state legislatures as the primary forces behind data privacy developments in the U.S. this year. In 2025, eight new ...

A federal executive order (EO) issued in March has created questions about the government’s right to access states’ data — especially in cases where that information was collected with a promise of ...

Critics fear that personal data might be used to monitor immigrants and political foes, and to spread false tales of fraud. By Emily Badger As the Trump administration has sought to amass personally ...

Story updated with information on California’s Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform Data privacy regulation is an issue with broad, national bipartisan support. Red states like Texas and Tennessee and ...