Ida Knox Associate

On April 27, 2023, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law House Bill 1155, also known as the My Health, My Data Act. Its stated purpose is to protect “consumer health data” collected by entities not already subject to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, but one less obvious consequence of the Act is that it may make Washington state a new hot spot for class-action litigation involving biometric privacy.

Employment rights and obligations related to human resources data are about to get messy in California. On Jan. 1, 2023, California will become the first state to have a comprehensive data privacy law covering human resources data when the California Privacy Rights Act becomes operational.