Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

The Privacy Law Database

Every U.S. comprehensive consumer privacy law, readable section by section. Each provision carries a permanent link you can cite, every defined term links to its definition, and every law carries its complete legislative history: the bill that enacted it and every amendment since, traceable paragraph by paragraph.

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How every state defines personal data or biometric data, and how each handles enforcement, the right to cure, applicability thresholds, assessments, and minors. Verbatim.
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Legislative histories
Every law's full lineage. California's runs from AB 375 in 2018 through Prop 24 and twenty further bills to today.
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Click any paragraph for a permanent link and its history: who wrote it, when it changed, and how it read in every earlier version.
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Coveragecomprehensive consumer privacy laws; more privacy-law collections planned
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Federal
There is no comprehensive federal consumer privacy law. The sectoral federal laws (HIPAA, GLBA, FERPA, COPPA, and others) and other state privacy-law categories are planned as future collections in this database.
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About this database

Built and maintained by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Each law's text is decomposed to the individual provision: every paragraph carries a stable identifier you can link and cite, and every law's legislative history (the enacting bill, every enacted amendment, and California's Prop 24 ballot initiative) is parsed to the same provision level and joined to today's code, so any paragraph traces back through its versions to the language as first enacted.

A granular comparison layer (rights, definitions, enforcement, contoured the way consumers actually ask about them) is in progress on the same foundation.

Statutory text from official state sources; snapshot dates shown on each law's page. Instrument metadata and bill documents via Open States, LegiScan, and state legislature sites; CA Prop 24 from the Secretary of State's ballot archive. Structure follows the Akoma Ntoso standard (stable provision identifiers, FRBR versioning).