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State Privacy Laws

What is State Privacy Laws?

Data protection regulations enacted by individual US states to protect residents' personal information, each with varying requirements and rights.

Compliance and Regulatory

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as state privacy laws. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on state privacy laws

Requirements naming state privacy laws across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Per Iowa Code 715D.8 + 715D.9 ICDPA enforcement is exclusively vested in the Iowa Attorney General with no private right of action and offers the LONGEST cure period among US state privacy laws (90 days vs 30 days in Virginia/Indiana/Utah + 60 days original in...

ICDPA-Enforcement-90DayCure-AttorneyGeneralOnly-NoPrivateRight-CivilPenalties-7500-PerViolation-Longest-Cure · Iowa CDPA Enforcement - Attorney General Exclusive + 90-Day Cure Period (LONGEST among US State Privacy Laws) + No Private Right of Action + Civil Penalties Up to USD 7500 Per Violation →

FCC CPNI rules + Section 222 of the Communications Act are the principal US federal telecommunications-privacy framework. Status: REGULATIONS IN FORCE since 1996 (Section 222) + 1998 (initial FCC CPNI Order) + 2007 + 2009 + 2011 + 2017 amendments.

CPNI-Status · FCC CPNI - corpus status, enforcement landscape, broadband privacy →

Apply Communicate-P function including: Communication Policies (CM.PO-P) covering policies for privacy communications + records of disclosures + privacy notice strategy;

NISTPF-4 · Communicate-P - Privacy Notice, Transparency, and Individual Awareness →

Honour PII data subject rights including: right of access + rectification + erasure/correction + portability + restriction of processing + objection + automated decision-making protections per Privacy Act 1974 access and amendment + state privacy laws + GDPR e...

NISTSP122-3 · PII Data Subject Rights and Automated Decision-Making →

Apply Section 6 data classification and handling in cloud per FIPS 199 categorisation + agency data sensitivity + GDPR + CCPA + 24 state privacy laws + HIPAA + PCI DSS + SOX.

NISTSP144-3 · Data Classification, Handling, and Sovereignty →

Conduct retail-tailored risk assessment + customer data inventory + classification per the NRF framework + NIST SP 800-30 Rev 1 + adaptation to retail threat model.

NRFCS-2 · Risk Assessment, Customer Data Inventory, Classification, and Retail Threat Model →

Questions people ask about state privacy laws

What is State Privacy Laws?
Data protection regulations enacted by individual US states to protect residents' personal information, each with varying requirements and rights.
Why is State Privacy Laws important for compliance?
State Privacy Laws is a key concept in Compliance and Regulatory. Understanding state privacy laws helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address State Privacy Laws?
State Privacy Laws appears in the requirement text of Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act, FCC Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) and Data Breach Rules (47 CFR 64.2001-2011), NIST Privacy Framework, NIST SP 800-122, NIST SP 800-144. Across these standards we have identified 13 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about State Privacy Laws?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how state privacy laws applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.