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Florida's New Data Privacy Bill Is an Outlier, Going Both Broad and Narrow

By Cassandre Coyer
July 01, 2023

On June 6, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Digital Bill of Rights into law, making Florida the 10th state with a data privacy law in the U.S.

The Florida law, which will go into effect on July 1, 2024, positions itself as an outlier among other state data privacy regulations. Data privacy professionals say some companies might be caught by surprise by the bill's very targeted definition of controllers, an expanded list of data breach reporting requirements and an unprecedented scope of compliance regarding sensitive data.

"It's easy to say, 'oh, we've got the [10th] state, it's just another consumer rights privacy bill similar to the others.' But it's easy to miss that it's actually not exactly like the others in the sense that it does a lot of stuff. It has a lot of requirements," said Brandon Robinson, partner at Balch & Bingham. "It's very comprehensive in what it is requiring, but it is very narrow in its applicability about most of those requirements."

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