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 ...

Observed annually on January 28, Data Privacy Day raises awareness about privacy and data protection. As 2026 begins, the U.S. privacy compliance landscape reaches a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images More states are passing laws to protect information generated by a person’s brain and nervous system as technology ...

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 ...

Karla Lellis is privacy law expert whose specialty is comparative law and how the U.S., Brazil and European Union define and evaluate harms in cybersecurity disputes, specifically how monetary, ...