Takeaways

• The enactments of Alabama’s and Oklahoma’s comprehensive privacy legislation are not remarkable in and of themselves. However, the passage of these business-friendly statutes, in contrast with the defeat of Maine’s more aggressive privacy law, points to a trend of deregulatory pressureoccurring at both the U.S. state and federal levels.
• With sectorial regulation remaining robust, the U.S. is fully engrossed in its third era of privacy regulation, focusing on high-risk processing instead of generalized comprehensive regulation.