State Privacy Legislation Update: What’s New and What’s Ahead

Editor's Note: This article was originally published on the Maurice Wutscher blog and is republished here with permission.

There are currently over 40 comprehensive consumer data privacy bills pending in the states as we enter the third month (for most states) of the legislative sessions.

Although the dread of the often-referenced “patchwork” of dissimilar state privacy laws still looms, the good news is that the majority of the bills are not moving, moving slowly, or dead.  Nevertheless, there are some that are working their way toward the finish line, and a few that appear to have come back from the dead, as explained below.

The following chart shows how various privacy legislation components included in 47 bills measure up:

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