2024 was an active year for state privacy law. Keir Lamont and David Stauss recap the year for IAPP:
By the numbers, 2024 experienced a comparable level of activity to 2023 with seven new states passing comprehensive privacy laws, bringing the total number of state laws to 19 — or 20 depending on whether you count the controversial Florida Digital Bill of Rights.
However, 2024 saw much more variation in the data privacy bills considered and passed than prior years. Several states that adopted or came close to enacting privacy legislation did so with bills that differed significantly from the influential — though never enacted — Washington State Privacy Act, which served as the foundation for state data privacy laws enacted between 2021 and 2023.
In short, privacy professionals may come to look back on 2024 as marking the end of the “Pax-Washingtonia” era for U.S. state data privacy law.
Read more at IAPP.
