Lexology June 23, 2023
On May 11, 2023, Governor Bill Lee signed the Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA) into law. Tennessee now joins the rapidly increasing group of states, California, Utah, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Iowa and Indiana (together, “US State Data Privacy Laws”), with their own comprehensive consumer data privacy laws. TIPA becomes effective on July 1, 2025. TIPA mostly follows other states, so controllers should have little difficulty adapting their existing data privacy compliance program to the TIPA. Similar to our other articles on US State Data Privacy Laws, we summarize the key components of TIPA below.
Who does TIPA apply to?
Similar to the US State Data Privacy Laws, the Tennessee Data Privacy Law imposes transparency and disclosure obligations on a “controller”...