Politico June 25, 2025
With help from Aaron Mak
In the long absence of any federal rules on data privacy, state after state has stepped into the gap. First was California, whose groundbreaking privacy law went into force in 2020 — followed by 18 other states that passed their own versions.
The laws protect online consumers, giving them varying rights to their data and limiting how companies can use it. The tech industry and a host of other businesses have long complained that this is a frustrating patchwork — a hard-to-follow set of rules that make doing business more expensive and less predictable.
And now a twist is emerging: Right now, in one capital after another, the patchwork is changing.
In recent months, states...
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