Wiley: State Privacy Patchwork Triggers National Compliance Approach
Many companies are moving toward a national approach to privacy compliance to account for the growing patchwork of state laws, Wiley attorneys said in a blog post Thursday.
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Comprehensive privacy laws took effect in Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska and New Hampshire on Jan.1 and a New Jersey law becomes effective Jan. 15 (see 2501060066). Measures in Minnesota and Tennessee take effect in July. Maryland’s law, which is complicating this national approach due to its outlier data minimization provisions, takes effect in October.
Attorneys questioned whether the Trump administration will continue exploring a potential FTC privacy rulemaking, which Chair Lina Khan initiated in 2022 with a notice of proposed rulemaking that never produced final rules. Wiley noted Commissioner Andrew Ferguson, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the commission, dissented from the Democratic majority on several agency rulemakings. They expect case-by-case privacy enforcement under Ferguson.