"Washington became the eighth state to enshrine the right to repair. Several states stepped up to protect the privacy of location data, with bills recognizing your location data isn't just a pin on a map-it's a powerful tool that reveals far more than most people realize. Other state legislators moved to protect health privacy. And California passed a law making it easier for people to exercise their privacy rights under the state's consumer data privacy law."
"Several states also took up debates around how to legislate and regulate artificial intelligence and its many applications. We'll continue to work with allies in states including California and Colorado to proposals that address the real harms from some uses of AI, without infringing on the rights of creators and individual users. We've also fought some troubling bills in states across the country this year."
State legislatures across the country advanced several priorities in 2025. Washington became the eighth state to enshrine the right to repair. Multiple states passed or considered protections for location data and health privacy, and California made it easier to exercise consumer data privacy rights. Legislatures debated how to regulate artificial intelligence while allies continue developing proposals to address real harms without infringing creators' or users' rights. Lawmakers defeated an April Florida bill that would have created a law-enforcement backdoor to encrypted messages involving minors. Numerous age verification and estimation bills risk collecting vast data and forcing identity verification for basic content.
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