Compliance Stuff

Privacy law evolved at a dizzying pace in 2025. Regulators brought headline-making enforcement actions, courts continued to shape the boundaries of existing statutes, and state legislatures advanced new laws. Much of that activity centered on familiar pressure points: privacy notices and opt-out mechanisms, telemarketing and text messaging practices, and the collection and use of sensitive data, particularly biometric information, health data (such as the Healthline CCPA enforcement), and children’s and teen’s personal information (including actions against Roku in multiple jurisdictions). Newly effective laws echoed those same priorities. For example, Maryland’s comprehensive privacy law and several children’s privacy statutes in states like New York and Colorado place new limits on how children’s data may be used for advertising and related purposes, while Colorado also expanded consent requirements for certain biometric processing affecting both consumers and employees. In parallel,...