Maryland recently passed a comprehensive data privacy law. Effective October 1, 2025, the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA) contains a number of unique provisions that govern the processing of sensitive and children’s data, among other things. These unique provisions, combined with the broad applicability of the law, makes MODPA one of the more operationally challenging privacy laws passed in the United States to date.
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“Maryland Passes Unique and Operationally Challenging Privacy Law,” by Philip N. Yannella, Sharon R. Klein, Timothy W. Dickens and Jason C. Hirsch was published in the July-August 2024 edition of Pratt’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report (Vol. 10, No. 6), an A.S. Pratt Publication, LexisNexis. Reprinted with permission.
