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The United States has no single federal privacy law. What a company or the police can do with your data, and what rights you have over it, depends heavily on which state you happen to live in.
This project answers the same twenty questions for all fifty states and the District of Columbia, covering consumer data privacy, biometrics, government surveillance, artificial intelligence, kids online safety, and the right to repair your own devices. Built from real statutes, official regulator guidance, and reporting from groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and the International Association of Privacy Professionals, so you can compare what is protected on paper against what actually happens in practice.
Content last verified: August 30, 2026. Laws and enforcement patterns shift — always confirm current status before relying on this for a legal decision.
Every law cited on this page, searchable and linked to its source →
Pick two to five states below to line up their answers to all twenty questions in one table.
Each state answers the same twenty questions across a set of flyer cards, with its bio and cited sources underneath. Pick any state on the map above and it will open right here.
This page covers 50 states and the District of Columbia. Every other region, plus the full 195-country globe, uses the same twenty-question atlas.