
Keypoint: The 2025 state legislative cycle begins with lawmakers introducing twenty-three bills, including five state consumer data privacy bills.
We are back for our sixth year of tracking proposed state privacy legislation and fifth year of providing weekly updates. As in past years, we will track proposed state privacy legislation through these weekly updates and our forthcoming state privacy law tracker map.
In this year’s weekly updates, we will continue to track proposed bills concerning consumer data, children’s data, biometric data, consumer health data, and data brokers.
With the explosion of AI-related state bills (nearly 500 bills filed last year) and the significant resources necessary to track those bills, we have moved our coverage of those bills to a separate paid weekly newsletter – Byte Back AI. In Part 2, below, we provide more information on this week’s newsletter, which includes updates on dozens of new bills introduced last week and a summary of a new algorithmic discrimination bill with a private right of action.
We also made one structural change to our bill tracker charts this year. We combined our various tracker charts into a single chart and added a column identifying the bill’s category.
Now to our first weekly update. As always, the contents provided below are time-sensitive and subject to change. If you are not already subscribed to our blog, consider doing so to stay updated.