Brenna Goth

Connecticut consumers will have more control over how businesses treat information about their health and the data of youth under 18 years old through an expansion of the state’s consumer privacy law.

Oregon is the latest state to give consumers more control over how companies collect and use their personal information under a law signed Tuesday.

State laws directing Pornhub and other adult sites to ensure their users are at least 18 years old have triggered a thorny policy debate over whether the use of age verification is feasible to shield children from a broad array of sexual content available online.

People depicted in sexually-explicit “deepfakes”—or images manipulated digitally to show false events—that are spread without their consent can sue for damages under a new Illinois law.

Residents of roughly a quarter of US states will soon have new control over how companies collect and use their personal information after a busy year for passage of additional comprehensive consumer privacy laws.

More than a dozen states across the country are implementing new ESG laws that in most cases curb use of the factors in investments, contracts, and other areas.

States are enacting similar data privacy laws when it comes to broad consumer rights but are diverging on approaches to health data, kids privacy, and other narrower issues, a panel of lawmakers and attorneys said Wednesday at a National Conference of State Legislatures panel in Indianapolis.

California’s first-in-the-nation measures requiring companies to disclose financial risks related to climate and report greenhouse gas emissions could embolden other states to take similar action in an effort to address climate change.

Companies are navigating an increasingly complex set of laws for how they collect and use personal information as states diverge in their approaches to boosting data privacy standards.

Social media companies subject to Utah’s first-in-the-nation law requiring parental consent for young users would be able to verify ages by using facial characteristics or government IDs, under a proposed rule.