States don’t hold our information passively—they are stewards—responsible for safeguarding it against uses that undermine public confidence or expose individuals to risk. Granting data requests ...

The continued absence of a comprehensive federal privacy law once again positioned state legislatures as the primary forces behind data privacy developments in the U.S. this year. In 2025, eight new ...

The state Department of Health conducts initial lead testing for Washington public schools but doesn’t update its data after ...

A federal executive order (EO) issued in March has created questions about the government’s right to access states’ data — especially in cases where that information was collected with a promise of ...

(Editor’s note: The federal government has removed several web pages linked to in this brief. Where possible, links to archived versions have been inserted.) Data are the cornerstone of public health ...

Between 2020 and 2024, 20 states enacted comprehensive data privacy laws, and many observers assumed 2025 would see continued proliferation.

This article was originally published on IAPP and is republished here with permission as it originally appeared on November 10, 2025. Although 2025 may end as the first year since 2020 in which no new ...