Attorneys Compare State Data Privacy Rules For Corporate Compliance Insights Article

Bass, Berry & Sims attorneys Roy Wyman, Alex Davenport and Joelle Hupp authored an article for Corporate Compliance Insights comparing the similarities and differences between the many state data privacy rules. In the absence of a federal data privacy regulation, many states have passed individual privacy laws, making compliance challenging for companies with multiple locations.

In the article, the attorneys examine the differences among the following categories:

• Applicability: Most controllers — the entity that controls the processing of personal information — fall into one of two buckets: Subject to all/most state frameworks or subject to only those state frameworks with looser applicability thresholds.