As the privacy landscape continues to evolve, companies may find it difficult to manage regulator expectations of compliance and consumer demands as outlined in lawsuits, said Julie Rubash, chief privacy officer for Sourcepoint, a vendor.

Companies and consultants should be aware of key privacy regulations in effect this year in Indiana, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Delaware, Oregon, California and other states, Shook Hardy privacy attorney Josh Hansen wrote in a post Friday.

Though much in the privacy space has yet to be “resolved,” some aspects have become more mainstream, especially concerning consumer online privacy, said Laura Riposo VanDruff, a privacy and data security lawyer at Kelley Drye, in an interview with Privacy Daily.

Companies should fully inventory their dataflows in 2026 to comply with regulations and governance frameworks in an increasingly AI-driven world, Lowenstein Sandler privacy attorney Amy Mushahwar wrote in a post Friday.

AI smart glasses are becoming powerful and appealing tools in the workplace; however, organizations should understand their legal and privacy concerns, said Jackson Lewis lawyer Joseph Lazzarotti in a blog post Monday.

Businesses that use tracking technologies must ensure they have the proper information and language in their disclosures and consent mechanisms to avoid legal risk, said Marc Roth, marketing and privacy advisor at Cobalt, during a webinar hosted by the Practising Law Institute Monday.

The 23andMe bankruptcy earlier this year showed that U.S. policymakers must “close the governance cracks” around genetic data privacy, academics from the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy said in a Tech Policy Press op-ed Tuesday. “The inherently sensitive and identifying nature of genomic data is currently at the mercy of a weak regulatory framework.”

Businesses that have used iRobot devices and the data they collect should verify compliance with state privacy laws, attorneys at McCarter & English said Monday.

Privacy law, particularly in the U.S., is “increasingly bad” for consumers and companies, said WilmerHale’s Kirk Nahra during a Practising Law Institute (PLI) event Wednesday.

Questions remain about how companies can use new Apple and Google application programming interfaces (APIs) to comply with app store age-verification laws coming into effect soon in California, Louisiana, Texas and Utah, Frankfurt Kurnit privacy attorneys blogged Monday.