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The White House AI Action Plan proposes limiting AI-related federal funding to states with "burdensome" regulations, arguing such rules would waste...

Oregon's new data privacy law now covers state agencies, blocking personal data sales to brokers and strengthening sanctuary protections amid federal...

State Data Broker Restrictions

• 🔥 Virginia Geolocation Ban: Virginia has banned the sale of precise geolocation data, restricting the market...

Multiple states are independently restricting precise geolocation data sales and data broker activities.

• Virginia bans sales of data identifying...

The ATF's warrantless tracking of cell phone locations via ad-tech data exposed a constitutional loophole now closed by Congress after 340+...

State Data Broker Controls

• 🔥 New Jersey Data Broker Fee: New Jersey implemented the nation's highest data broker registration fee along with a...

• Timeline: FTC filed 2022 complaint alleging Kochava sold precise location data revealing visits to sensitive sites; June 2026 court order found...

New Jersey now charges the nation's highest data broker registration fee while adding a ban on selling sensitive data.

• This places the state among...

The structural dismantling of state sovereignty—via the Fourteenth Amendment, Seventeenth Amendment, and Texas v. White—has left states stripped of...

The Chatrie decision marks a narrow privacy gain by requiring warrants for geofence location data from Google, yet it leaves major gaps.

• Justice...

ATF canceled its Penlink Webloc contract after 341 warrantless searches on adtech-sourced cell data, yet ICE continues pursuing commercial location...

State Economic Controls on Tech Infrastructure

• 🔥 Virginia Data Center Tax: Virginia imposed the first electricity-use tax on data centers,...

North Carolina's Senate Bill 153 now requires state law enforcement to actively cooperate with and help execute federal immigration operations after...

• ATF canceled Webloc contract after 300+ warrantless searches, but FBI and DHS continue buying commercial location data
• Ad-tech tools bypass...

The CFPB's June 17 rescission removes the interpretive safe harbor for Special Purpose Credit Programs using protected-class eligibility criteria...

Virginia’s new $600 million annual electricity tax on data centers marks a shift from moratoriums to real financial penalties.

• Environmental groups...

Election Administration Conflicts

• DOJ Voter Data Losses: A federal judge dismissed the DOJ's ninth lawsuit seeking state voter registration...

Federal attempts to impose centralized rules on voter registration face repeated judicial pushback, affirming state authority over elections.

• An...

Commercial firms are building data pipelines that feed government surveillance without warrants.

• DraftKings tracks users and shares data with...

Two federal agencies are asserting supremacy over state consumer and financial rules, signaling a broader preemption trend.

• OCC rulings: Issued...