Top Six Major Privacy Enforcement Trends: A U.S. Legislation Retrospective

Enforcement activity intensifies as U.S. consumer privacy laws continue to evolve and come into effect. In 2023 and 2024 alone, there have been dozens of enforcement actions at the U.S. federal and state levels, some of which reveal or touch on significant throughlines for privacy policy issues, such as what constitutes a privacy violation or the expanding regulatory interest in the risks of collecting, inferring, and using sensitive data. This Retrospective focuses on six major enforcement trends that have recently addressed key questions or policy issues in the privacy landscape.