State Privacy Laws Are Ever-Evolving, Say Cooley Lawyers
This year’s updates to Connecticut and Montana privacy laws “signal that consumer privacy regimes continue to evolve and remain a significant -- and often bipartisan -- priority at the state level,” Cooley privacy attorneys blogged Wednesday.
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“They are also part of a larger trend where states, facing a murky legal landscape and continued lack of movement on privacy at a federal level, borrow from one another’s approaches to addressing emerging privacy-related concerns -- for example, related to the collection and use of minors’ data,” the lawyers wrote.
Montana’s privacy law update, which included expanded child protections and reduced applicability thresholds, took effect on Oct. 1 (see 2509300014).
Connecticut’s update will take effect July 1, 2026 (see 2506260005). Lawmakers there made a variety of changes, including refining data-minimization requirements and tightening an exemption for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to a data-level carve-out from an entity-level one.