See what your state's privacy law lets you do, use it, and help make the rules stronger where you live and nationally. Picking a state happens in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.
Tap your state on the map, or choose it from the list. Colors show how strongly each place protects residents from companies, scored against Europe's privacy law.
Consumer score: protection from companies, out of 30. Government score: constitutional privacy rights and limits on police access to data, out of 6. Tap a column to sort.
We used the EU's General Data Protection Regulation as the benchmark: it's the most widely copied privacy law in the world. Each place gets 0 to 3 points on eleven criteria. Enforcement counts double, because a strong law nobody enforces protects no one. Government protections are scored separately so they don't hide how well a place protects you from companies.
Where the facts come from: state law trackers from ClauseAudit, Morgan Lewis and MultiState for which laws exist and when they take effect; the Future of Privacy Forum's 2025 enforcement review and MultiState for enforcement actions; the ACLU and EPIC for police access to location data; and DLA Piper for breach notification laws.
Limits: many scores are judgment calls, explained in each place's notes. Places with a broad law and no notable differences get the standard score for that kind of law. Police-access scores rely mainly on a 2015 survey and may miss newer laws. Enforcement reflects public actions through 2025, so states with new laws may simply not have acted yet. Scores reflect laws in effect on .
Download the full spreadsheet with every score and note. Spotted a mistake? Tell us on GitHub.
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