Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A customer looks at a laptop computer for sale last year. Comprehensive consumer privacy laws are taking effect in eight states ...

State legislatures are weighing a wave of protections for sensitive geolocation data that would redefine comprehensive ...

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 ...

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a nonprofit privacy rights group have called on several states to investigate why “hundreds” of data brokers haven’t registered with state consumer ...

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 ...

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A customer looks at a laptop computer for sale last year. Comprehensive consumer privacy laws are taking effect in eight states this year. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) This year, comprehensive privacy ...