Greetings from Newfields, New Hampshire! My interest and attention paid to the U.S. state privacy law landscape since the turn of the calendar have yet to waver — and for good reason. There's been so much to cover and much left to track as state legislatures still in session continue to work on pot...

According to Husch Blackwell's "Byte Back," U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., reintroduced the Clean Slate for Kids Online Act of 2021. The bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Edward Markey, D-Mass., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, aims to amend the Children's Online Privacy Protect...

According to analysis from legal professionals at Arnold & Porter, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a $4.3 million Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act fine that was deemed unjustified. The court found the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was...

Rwanda's Chamber of Deputies announced the adoption of the draft law relating to personal data protection and privacy. The law provides for data subject rights, requirements for data controllers and processers, and noncompliance penalties of RWF 10 million or 5% of annual turnover. The Lower Hous...

The IAPP published a chart listing the data breach notification laws for U.S. states, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. The chart contains a hyperlink to the state's notification statute, the timeframe to notify individuals of a breach, exceptions to notification requirements, and when a sta...