From Hunton Andrews Kurth: On June 2, 2025, proposed rules (“Proposed Rules”) were published under New Jersey’s Data Privacy Act (“NJDPA”). The Proposed Rules elaborate on what constitutes “personal data” and detail a number of compliance obligations, some of which parallel existing requirements under data privacy laws in California and Colorado. Like many other state data privacy laws, the…
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Republicans Move A Step Closer To Repealing Protections For Abortion Clinics
Alanna Vagianos reports: The Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill on Tuesday that would repeal a 30-year-old federal law created to safeguard abortion clinics — even as violence against providers and clinics has skyrocketed since the Supreme Court ended federal abortion protections. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, also known as the FACE…
Democrats introduce bill that aims to protect reproductive health data
Carter Sherman reports: Three Democratic members of Congress have introduced a bill to limit companies’ ability to hoover up data about people’s reproductive health – a measure, they say, that is necessary to protect women from persecution in the post-Roe v Wade era. Representative Sara Jacobs of California, Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Senator…
Don’t Mind If I Do: Montana Says Hands Off Neural Data
In May 2025, Montana enacted Senate Bill 163 (SB 163), amending that state’s Genetic Information Privacy Act (MGIPA) to include protections for neurotechnology data—namely, data collected from the activity of the central or peripheral nervous system. Naa Kai Koppoe and Alison Watkins of Perkins Coie write: This amendment reflects a growing nationwide recognition of the sensitivity of…