Meredith Halama

$1.5 billion. That number got the room’s attention at the 2026 IAPP Global Summit: $1.5 billion is the theoretical penalty exposure for a single data broker that misses just one deletion cycle under California’s new Delete...more On February 5, 2026, South Carolina’s governor signed House Bill 3431, the Age-Appropriate Code Design, into law. The law took effect immediately, with no cure period, and imposes expansive new design, data, and governance...more The state privacy law landscape in 2025 remained highly dynamic, even though no new states enacted omnibus privacy laws for the first time in years. Sweeping amendments and regulatory developments raised the compliance bar,...more After years of drafting, discussions, and debates, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board reached a significant milestone in its efforts to bring to fruition regulations that have been in discussion by the CPPA...more