Proposed State Privacy Law Update: May 12, 2025

First-of-Its-Kind: Teen Privacy Law Passes in Arkansas - Varnum LLP

On April 22, 2025, Arkansas enacted the Arkansas Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (HB 1717, Act 952), making it the first state to expand core federal children’s privacy protections to teens. The law, effective July 1, 2026, applies to for-profit websites, online services, apps, and mobile applications that are directed to children (under 13) or teens (ages 13-16), or that have actual knowledge they are collecting personal infor…

Proposed State Privacy Law Update: May 12, 2025

Keypoint: Last week, the Colorado legislature passed an amendment to the state’s data privacy law, the Texas legislature passed a bill regulating app stores, and there were developments with bills in Connecticut, Maine, New York and South Carolina. Below is the eighteenth weekly update on the status of proposed state privacy legislation in 2025. As always, the contents provided below are time-sensitive and subject to change. Table of Contents W…