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May 6, 2026

Alabama and Oklahoma Introduce Virginia-Style Privacy Laws

  • Mark Coakley
    Cybersecurity Law Report
After no state enacted a comprehensive privacy law in 2025, Alabama and Oklahoma moved ahead with Virginia-style statutes in early 2026. Now there are 21 states with such laws, deepening the patchwork of privacy rules as Congress again weighs federal action. This article reviews key provisions of the pair of new state privacy laws, discusses trends in the U.S. privacy law landscape and offers compliance tips, with insights from experts at Covington, Hogan Lovells and Miller Nash. See “State Privacy Law in 2025: Eight Practical Articles for Navigating the Compliance Landscape” (Jul. 2, 2025).

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Trailblazing Women – Contributions, Achievements and Observations of Outstanding Leaders

To mark International Women’s Day, Law Report Group editors, along with our colleagues across ION Analytics’ products, interviewed outstanding women in the industries and jurisdictions we cover. In this article, Jill Abitbol, Robin Barton, Rorie Norton and Megan Zwiebel profile notable women in the data privacy, cybersecurity, AI, private funds and anti-corruption law fields, including (i) Paula Howell Anderson, (ii) Gwendolyn Lee Hassan, (iii) Audrey Koh, (iv) Stacy Feuer, (v) Heather Egan, (vi) Jeewon Serrato, (vii) Stephanie Breslow, (viii) Anne Choe, (ix) Heather Wyckoff, (x) Angie Batterson, (xi) Jacqueline Eaves, and (xii) C. Dabney O’Riordan.

Enjoy reading their inspiring remarks here.