Insights

Marking a significant milestone toward the broad deployment of commercial drones over American skies, the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) and Transportation Security Administration issued a proposed rule in August that would streamline how drones can operate when they fly beyond the visual line of sight of their operators.

On September 26, the White House invited the public to submit comments on Federal laws, rules, and policies that “unnecessarily hinder” the development or deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the United States. This request marks one of the Trump Administration’s most substantial moves yet to reduce the regulatory burden on AI. Respondents may submit comments through a government website until October 27, 2025.

On September 9, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”), along with California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, (collectively the “Coalition”) announced a joint investigative sweep (the “Sweep”) into businesses refusing to honor consumers' requests to opt-out of the sale of their personal information submitted via Global Privacy Controls (“GPCs”). This Sweep is another action in a growing trend of multi-state cooperation in data privacy enforcement activities. Given the continued lack of a federal data privacy law, state cooperation and enforcement activities are expected to continue.

State privacy law developments continued on a similar trajectory as previous years, marked by a legislative focus on data privacy issues. At the beginning of the 2023 legislative session, five states (California, Colorado, Virginia, Utah, and Connecticut) passed comprehensive privacy laws, all of which are now effective and enforceable.