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ARTICLE · 16 APRIL 2026

Alabama Enacts Comprehensive Privacy Law

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Alabama becomes the 21st state to enact comprehensive privacy legislation with the Alabama Personal Data Protection Act, featuring unique provisions including the nation's lowest coverage threshold at 25,000 consumers, novel exemptions for analytics and marketing disclosures, and an unusually generous permanent 45-day cure period.

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Roll privacy. On April 16, 2026, only a few weeks after Oklahoma broke the state comprehensive privacy legislation drought to bring our total to 20, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the Alabama Personal Data Protection Act into law to make it 21.

Like Oklahoma's law, Alabama's adds little that a business with a mature compliance program must address. However, the law deviates from consensus in a few interesting ways:

  • Coverage thresholds. Alabama's 25,000-consumer processing threshold is the lowest of any state, covering just 0.48% of the population. Unlike most states, which tie the 25% gross revenue trigger to sales involving at least 25,000 individuals, Alabama's applies regardless of how many consumers' data is sold.

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