Privacy By State
As of September 13, 2026, 23 states have enacted comprehensive consumer data privacy laws. Florida has a narrower, limited-scope general consumer privacy law. Other states may still impose data-breach notification, biometric, health, financial, children’s, or other sector-specific privacy requirements.
Disclaimer: This information is provided for general informational purposes only and is not legal advice. Privacy laws, regulations, thresholds, exemptions, and effective dates may change. Consult qualified legal counsel regarding specific compliance obligations.
| State | Legislation | Effective Date | Fundamental Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Alabama Personal Data Protection Act (APDPA) | May 1, 2027 | Applies to businesses conducting business in or targeting Alabama that control/process personal data of more than 25,000 consumers, or derive more than 25% of gross revenue from sale of personal data, subject to exemptions. |
| Alaska | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Arizona | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Arkansas | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| California | CCPA / CPRA | CCPA: Jan. 1, 2020; CPRA amendments: Jan. 1, 2023 | Applies to covered for-profit businesses meeting at least one threshold, including annual gross revenue of $26,625,000 or more (effective Jan. 1, 2025), buying/selling/sharing personal information of 100,000+ consumers or households, or deriving 50%+ annual revenue from selling/sharing personal information. |
| Colorado | Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) | July 1, 2023; biometric expansion July 1, 2025 | Generally applies at 100,000 consumers, or 25,000 consumers plus revenue/discount from sale of personal data. Separate biometric requirements can apply more broadly. |
| Connecticut | Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) | July 1, 2023; scope amended July 1, 2026 | Applies to persons doing business in/targeting Connecticut that process 35,000+ consumers, process consumer sensitive data, or offer consumers’ personal data for sale, subject to exemptions. |
| Delaware | Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA) | Jan. 1, 2025; HB 380 amendments Jan. 1, 2027 | Current law generally covers 35,000 consumers or 10,000 consumers plus more than 20% revenue from data sales. Effective Jan. 1, 2027, HB 380 lowers thresholds to 10,000, or 5,000 plus at least 20% revenue from data sales, and expands protections. |
| Florida | Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR) — limited scope | July 1, 2024 | Narrow applicability: generally for-profit controllers with more than $1 billion global annual revenue that also meet specified online-advertising, smart-speaker/virtual-assistant, or large app-store/platform criteria. |
| Georgia | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Hawaii | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Idaho | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Illinois | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific laws, including biometric privacy requirements, may still apply. |
| Indiana | Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act (ICDPA) | Jan. 1, 2026 | Generally applies at 100,000 consumers, or 25,000 consumers plus more than 50% gross revenue from sale of personal data, subject to exemptions. |
| Iowa | Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act (ICDPA) | Jan. 1, 2025 | Generally applies at 100,000 consumers, or 25,000 consumers plus more than 50% gross revenue from sale of personal data, subject to exemptions. |
| Kansas | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Kentucky | Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (KCDPA) | Jan. 1, 2026 | Applies at 100,000 consumers, or 25,000 consumers plus 50% of gross revenue from sale of personal data, subject to exemptions. |
| Louisiana | Louisiana Data Privacy Act (LDPA) | Jan. 1, 2027 | Applies to persons doing business in Louisiana meeting at least one threshold: more than $25 million annual gross revenue; personal data of 75,000+ consumers, households, or devices; or 50%+ annual revenue from selling personal data. |
| Maine | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Maryland | Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA) | Oct. 1, 2025 | Generally applies at 35,000 consumers, or 10,000 consumers plus more than 20% gross revenue from sale of personal data, subject to exemptions. |
| Massachusetts | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Michigan | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Minnesota | Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA) | July 31, 2025 | Generally applies at 100,000 consumers, or 25,000 consumers plus more than 25% gross revenue from sale of personal data; certain postsecondary institutions have delayed applicability. |
| Mississippi | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Missouri | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Montana | Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA) | Oct. 1, 2024; SB 297 amendments Oct. 1, 2025 | As amended, applies at 25,000 consumers, or 15,000 consumers plus more than 25% gross revenue from sale of personal data, subject to exemptions. |
| Nebraska | Nebraska Data Privacy Act (NDPA) | Jan. 1, 2025 | Applies to persons doing business in Nebraska or providing products/services consumed by residents that process or sell personal data and are not a small business under the federal Small Business Act, subject to exemptions; small businesses have a sensitive-data sale restriction. |
| Nevada | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. Nevada has other privacy and opt-out requirements that may apply. |
| New Hampshire | New Hampshire Privacy Act (SB 255) | Jan. 1, 2025 | Generally applies at 35,000 consumers, or 10,000 consumers plus more than 25% gross revenue from sale of personal data, subject to exemptions. |
| New Jersey | New Jersey Data Privacy Law (NJDPL) | Jan. 15, 2025 | Generally applies at 100,000 consumers, or 25,000 consumers plus revenue or financial benefit from sale of personal data, subject to exemptions. |
| New Mexico | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| New York | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| North Carolina | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| North Dakota | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Ohio | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Oklahoma | Oklahoma Consumer Data Privacy Act (SB 546) | Jan. 1, 2027 | Applies to controllers/processors doing business in or targeting Oklahoma that annually process personal data of 100,000+ consumers, or 25,000+ consumers while deriving over 50% of gross revenue from sale of personal data. |
| Oregon | Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA) | July 1, 2024 | Applies at 100,000 consumers, or 25,000 consumers plus more than 25% annual gross revenue from sale of personal data, subject to exemptions. |
| Pennsylvania | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Rhode Island | Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (RIDTPPA) | Jan. 1, 2026 | Generally applies at 35,000 consumers, or 10,000 consumers plus more than 20% gross revenue from sale of personal data, subject to exemptions. |
| South Carolina | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| South Dakota | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Tennessee | Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA) | July 1, 2025 | Applies to covered businesses with annual revenue over $25 million that process 175,000+ consumers, or 25,000+ consumers while deriving more than 50% gross revenue from sale of personal information, subject to exemptions. |
| Texas | Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) | July 1, 2024 | Broadly applies to businesses in or targeting Texas that process or sell personal data and are not small businesses under the federal Small Business Act, subject to statutory exemptions; small businesses generally may not sell sensitive personal data without consent. |
| Utah | Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA) | Dec. 31, 2023 | Generally applies to businesses with $25 million+ annual revenue that also meet 100,000-consumer or 25,000-consumer-plus-50%-revenue thresholds, subject to exemptions. |
| Vermont | Vermont Data Privacy and Online Surveillance Act (VDPOSA) | Jan. 1, 2028 | Applies to organizations processing data of at least 35,000 consumers, sensitive data of at least 3,000 consumers, or selling personal data of at least 3,000 consumers, subject to exemptions; consumer-health provisions may apply regardless of thresholds. |
| Virginia | Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) | Jan. 1, 2023 | Generally applies at 100,000 consumers, or 25,000 consumers plus more than 50% gross revenue from sale of personal data, subject to exemptions. |
| Washington | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. Washington has significant sector-specific privacy laws, including consumer-health-data requirements, that may still apply. |
| West Virginia | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Wisconsin | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |
| Wyoming | No comprehensive consumer privacy statute enacted | — | No comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently enacted. State-specific breach notification and sector-specific privacy laws may still apply. |