Karin McGinnis

Spring 2026 has been a busy season for state privacy legislation. Oklahoma and Alabama each enacted comprehensive privacy laws — bringing the national total to twenty-one — while Virginia moved to prohibit the sale of precise...more At MVA, we often help clients who are victims of cyber incidents where threat actors take data and threaten to release it unless they are paid. With ransomware attacks and data exfiltration common, companies face mounting...more We’re about one month away from the effective date of Maryland’s version of a state comprehensive privacy law--the Maryland Online Privacy Act (MODPA). Effective October 1, 2025, MODPA contains the now familiar comprehensive...more Effective January 1, 2026, the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TX H.B. 149, 2025) takes a unique approach to AI regulation—pulling threads from the EU AI Act, Colorado's comprehensive AI statute, and...more