Breaches, location data, surveillance, and who holds what about you.
Cloned voices, live video fakes, and spoofed senders have erased every tell people relied on. Minnesota wire law asks who sent the payment order, and in the ordinary case a wire you sent is yours.
Read →Chapter 13D never defines a meeting, never voids a decision, and almost never removes anyone from office. Here's what it does do, section by section.
Read →Minnesota's 2026 forged-likeness amendment is criminal only, and no Minnesota statute creates a right of publicity. Here's what's actually left to plead, and what it pays.
Read →After 2019, federal law built a whole caller-authentication apparatus — STIR/SHAKEN, traceback, the Robocall Mitigation Database. None of it is a plaintiff's tool, and here's why attribution still fails.
Read →18 U.S.C. § 2724 fixes liquidated damages at $2,500 with no showing of injury. But the Eighth Circuit applies the occurrence rule to the four-year clock, and Minnesota classifies driver data by a federal cross-reference frozen at May 23, 2005 — which the legislature loosened in 2026.
Read →The FBI tagged 460 of its 31,675 identity theft complaints with any AI reference in 2025, and the FTC's dataset has no AI field at all. What the federal sources actually document, and how you defend against it.
Read →Minnesota's civil claim for a fake sexual image carries a statutory penalty ten times the one for a real image — and it drops an element. Four statutes, two clocks, one federal lever.
Read →Minn. Stat. §§ 325E.311–.316, the state no-call registry and its caller-ID provision, expired December 31, 2012. Here's what survives, what replaced it, and where the private remedy is.
Read →The MCDPA lives at Minn. Stat. §§ 325M.10–.21, not in a chapter of its own. Its 21 exclusions are where the surprises are: the small-business exemption carries a carve-back with no size threshold, and there's no general exemption for nonprofits.
Read →Under 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(d), FERPA rights pass to the student at 18 or on attending a postsecondary institution, whichever comes first. Minn. Stat. § 13.32 then adds nineteen clauses of permitted disclosure, a parent veto over juvenile justice requests, and a ban on monitoring school-issued devices.
Read →Minn. Stat. § 181.974 has no employer-size threshold, no agency to exhaust, and a treble-damages private action. It also protects less information than GINA does, and it has no exceptions at all.
Read →Minnesota recognized no common-law privacy tort until 1998. Lake v. Wal-Mart adopted three branches and refused a fourth — and it decided nothing about the elements, which later cases have mostly narrowed.
Read →Minn. Stat. § 13.43 makes eight categories of government personnel data public, voids confidentiality terms in public-employment settlements, and applies that same rule to court orders.
Read →Minn. Stat. § 325E.59 gives a private business seven things it may not do with a Social Security number, plus a duty to lock down who can see the numbers it holds. It has no penalty, damages, or enforcement subdivision at all. So the remedy question gets answered from outside the section.
Read →Chapter 13 gives the subject of government data four separate rights: the Tennessen warning, a ten-business-day access clock, a 30-day correction procedure, and § 13.08 damages. The use limit in § 13.05, subd. 4 is the one with teeth.
Read →Minnesota Statutes use the word 'biometric' in 17 sections, and none of them is an Illinois-style BIPA. What actually reaches a fingerprint, faceprint, or voiceprint here is chapter 13, one honesty-testing statute, and a school fingerprint-card rule.
Read →Sections 325M.30–.34 make a platform publish statistics about itself, and they give nobody a private cause of action. Section 325M.40, added by Laws 2026, ch. 111, creates a $10,000 statutory-damages claim for a child or parent — but not until July 1, 2027.
Read →In Chatrie v. United States, a divided Supreme Court held that pulling a person's location data from Google is a search. Minnesota's Legislature required a warrant for exactly that back in 2014 — before Carpenter, and long before this term.
Read →Minn. Stat. § 325E.61, chapter 325M, and chapter 13 run on three different definitions, three different triggers, and three different enforcers — and § 13.05, subd. 11 pulls private contractors into the Data Practices Act whether or not the contract says a word about it.
Read →Minnesota's Data Practices Act gives a data subject a ten-business-day response deadline, a written-denial requirement that has to cite a statute, and two enforcement tracks. Most people use none of it.
Read →Minn. Stat. § 13.825 classifies body-worn camera data as private or nonpublic and then carves out five exceptions. The retention floor is 90 days, and that's the number that decides most cases.
Read →The Supreme Court says the FCC can fine your carrier without a jury. None of that money comes to you. Minnesota's Consumer Data Privacy Act took effect July 31, 2025, and it gives you real rights — but only the Attorney General can enforce them.
Read →Minn. Stat. § 325E.61 requires notice 'in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay,' and notice to the national credit bureaus within 48 hours when more than 500 people are notified at one time. The statute names only the Attorney General as its enforcer, and GLBA financial institutions are exempt outright.
Read →In Cox v. Sony Music, the Court wiped out a $1 billion verdict and held that an ISP isn't liable just for serving subscribers it knows are infringing. The last time the music industry couldn't reach the middleman, it sued a mother of four from Brainerd.
Read →Minn. Stat. § 626A.02, subd. 2(d) lets a party to a conversation record it, and § 626A.13 gives the person recorded a civil action worth at least $10,000 when it doesn't. Section 609.746 governs cameras, has no one-party rule, and creates no civil remedy at all.
Read →The Minnesota Health Records Act, Minn. Stat. §§ 144.291–144.298, requires signed consent for releases that HIPAA permits outright. Section 144.292 sets a 30-day access deadline and a capped fee schedule; § 144.298 gives the patient a private action against the requester as well as the releaser.
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