Lucas Schaetzel

Maryland’s new data protection law, the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), takes effect October 1, 2025, and introduces stricter requirements for processing personal and sensitive data, especially for minors, compared...more California, Colorado, and Connecticut have launched a coordinated investigation targeting businesses that fail to honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals, which are browser-level settings allowing consumers to opt out of...more Vermont’s new “Kids Code” hopes to improve children’s safety online by regulating the privacy, design, and data use of certain entities providing online services and collecting data about minors....more Montana’s amendments also remove the cure period for alleged violations beginning in October, provide prescriptive methods through which businesses have to provide consumers with targeted advertising opt out rights, and...more