State Data Privacy Regulators Are Coming. What Story Will You Tell Them?

This article reviews the evolving state-level data privacy enforcement landscape, highlighting Delaware's new DPDPA and the Delaware Deputy Attorney General's focus on assessing harm and fixability after breach notices. It explains the 'right to cure' provision, cites examples of recent state enforcement actions and fines, notes increased regulator staffing and budgets, and offers practical compliance advice—data minimization, audits, mapping, and privacy engineering—to help organizations reduce risk and present a compelling remediation narrative to regulators.