2024 brought ‘novel innovations’ in data privacy law

On this week’s Priorities Podcast, a researcher from the International Association of Privacy Professionals says that the past year has brought “novel innovations” in state privacy laws as each state attempts to solve the growing challenges of protecting personal information collected by businesses and other organizations. Muge Fazlioglu, a principal researcher for privacy law and policy at the association, tells StateScoop that many states are exhibiting new “digressions” from the state privacy law templates of years past. As instances of innovations in law, she points to Minnesota’s provisions designed to protect people from profiling, Rhode Island’s requirement that businesses disclose lists of specific third-parties companies share data with and Maryland’s data minimization framework. Fazlioglu says many experts are now looking ahead to 2025, when several new state data privacy laws will come into effect, including in Delaware, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Tennessee. This fact alone will make 2025 “a landmark year” for data privacy, she says.

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