Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A customer looks at a laptop computer for sale last year. Comprehensive consumer privacy laws are taking effect in eight states ...

The past complexity of data privacy is even more reason to take an affirmative position for its future, especially now, as the next technological revolution arrives. In March, Sens. Ed Markey and Bill ...

Influenced by advancements in AI and wearable technology, and fueled by privacy concerns, reproductive health data is at a pivotal intersection of federal and state regulations. Traditionally, the ...

The cost of fragmented identity infrastructure is real, but it's hidden in operational friction, complexity and risk rather ...

Pervasive data collection has fueled a dramatic transformation in the legal data privacy landscape, marked by two distinct, yet parallel, developments: a wave of new state privacy laws and a surge in ...

More states are passing laws to protect information generated by a person's brain and nervous system as technology improves the ability to unlock the sensitive details of a person's health, mental ...

The Globe’s April 13 editorial, “23andMe bankruptcy highlights need for data protection law,” noted that around 20 states — not including Massachusetts — have enacted consumer data privacy laws.

December 23, 2025 - Over the past several months, I have handled more cross-border data issues than I have in my whole career. This phenomenon only reinforces what I've known for some time: In this ...

Top Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate released legislation that seeks to bolster consumer privacy laws in the state by limiting the type of data large companies can store and collect from ...

(TNS) — From President Donald Trump's plans to shutter the U.S. Department of Education to threats of federal funding cuts for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, people who work in K-12 ...

In 1998, the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act became law. COPPA was designed with the future of the Internet in mind. Dotcoms were fast on their way to ...