{"id":270361,"date":"2026-06-11T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/states-privacy-laws-leapfrog-high-watermark-california-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:00:26","slug":"states-privacy-laws-leapfrog-high-watermark-california-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/states-privacy-laws-leapfrog-high-watermark-california-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"States Privacy Laws Leapfrog \u2018High Watermark\u2019 California Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/states-privacy-laws-leapfrog-high-watermark-california-rules\">States Privacy Laws Leapfrog \u2018High Watermark\u2019 California Rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/states-privacy-laws-leapfrog-high-watermark-california-rules\">https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/states-privacy-laws-leapfrog-high-watermark-california-rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-11 11:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.bloomberglaw.com\">news.bloomberglaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>California long served as the nation\u2019s gold standard for data protection. Now, states such as Maryland and Connecticut have topped the Golden State\u2019s privacy rights, reshuffling the state legislation landscape.<\/p>\n<p>A move from some other Democratic-led states to pass stronger consumer protections has pushed stricter business requirements beyond those in California over the last two years. <\/p>\n<p>Maryland, Connecticut, Virginia, and Oregon have banned sales of precise geolocation data, while Connecticut and Maryland also prohibited businesses\u2019 use of consumers\u2019 personal data to set personalized prices, with New York aiming to be next. And all eyes are now on a Massachusetts &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/states-privacy-laws-leapfrog-high-watermark-california-rules\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States Privacy Laws Leapfrog \u2018High Watermark\u2019 California Rules https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/states-privacy-laws-leapfrog-high-watermark-california-rules Publish Date: 2026-06-11 11:49:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bwrite-static.bloombergindustry.com\/dims4\/default\/ae8ca3f\/2147483647\/strip\/false\/crop\/3995x1540+3+8\/resize\/960x370!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbloomberg-bna-brightspot.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2F28%2F48%2Fb3b0b7ac43609c8e57f72cd0775d%2Fbonta.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270363,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270361\/revisions\/270363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}