New York's Privacy Bill Failed Last Session—But It Gives Us a Look at What Future Laws Might Look Like

The bill, refiled this session, introduces the idea of a 'data fiduciary'

Policy conversations are getting renewed attention following January’s implementation of California’s data privacy legislation, but lawmakers around the country have been at work crafting attempts at comprehensive privacy laws for their own states.

In New York, state Sen. Kevin Thomas’s S5642, known as the New York Privacy Act, has been heralded by data privacy advocates like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Center for Digital Democracy as a more comprehensive version of the California Consumer Privacy Act—and seen by opponents and industry groups as a new obstacle to publishers and platforms.

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