Disruption

‘Truckload’ of data privacy bills introduced in ’25

Nineteen states have previously enacted such laws, including seven last year.
A plane sits on the tarmac as a person works on their laptop while waiting for their flight at San Francisco International Airport on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Andy Bao)

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states are proposing sweeping consumer data privacy laws, continuing a trend California kicked off by passing a first-in-the-nation law in 2018.

Bills have so far been introduced in Alabama, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia, according to tracking by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

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