David P. Saunders, Alya Sulaiman, Sam Siegfried, and Austin Mooney of McDermott Will & Emery write: Washington State’s My Health My Data Act (the Act), which is working its way through the reconciliation process after the Washington Senate and House passed different versions of the Act, is ultimately expected to be signed into law by…
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Indiana Set to Become the Seventh State with a Comprehensive Privacy Law
Kirk J. Nahra and Ali A. Jessani of WilmerHale write: On Tuesday, April 11, the Indiana House passed Senate Bill No. 5, a comprehensive state privacy law similar to the ones that are already in effect in California, Colorado, Virginia, Utah and Connecticut. This bill previously passed (49 – 0) in the Indiana Senate on February…
Iowa: And then there were six – what you need to do to comply with the new Iowa Privacy Law
On 29 March 2023, Iowa became the sixth state to pass a comprehensive data privacy law (in line behind Connecticut, Utah, Virginia, Colorado, and California). The Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act (‘ICDPA’) will go into effect on 1 January 2025. While there are some familiar elements to other state laws that came before it (the…
Arkansas Enacts Legislation Restricting Social Media Accounts for Minors
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 12, 2023, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law S.B. 396 creating the state’s Social Media Safety Act (the “Act”). The Act comes after Utah’s similar social media laws enacted in March. The Act prohibits social media companies from allowing Arkansas residents under 18 years of age from holding accounts on the…