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U.S. State Privacy Enforcement: Key Priorities and Practical Guidance From State Regulators

By Jason Johnson & Linda Malek on April 9, 2026
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At the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) annual conference March 30-31, 2026, enforcement officials from California, Connecticut, Indiana, and Delaware shared their current and upcoming enforcement priorities under U.S. state consumer privacy laws. This alert summarizes the key themes from the panel and offers practical guidance for companies navigating the evolving enforcement landscape. Click here to continue reading the full version of this alert.

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Jason Johnson is a partner in Crowell’s Health Care and Privacy & Cybersecurity Groups, where he draws on his experience as a former research scientist to advise clients on complex compliance, legal, regulatory, and transactional matters. He helps clients in the health care

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Jason Johnson is a partner in Crowell’s Health Care and Privacy & Cybersecurity Groups, where he draws on his experience as a former research scientist to advise clients on complex compliance, legal, regulatory, and transactional matters. He helps clients in the health care and life sciences industries navigate data privacy and cybersecurity issues under U.S. and European law. He also offers strategic insights to assist clients with product development, marketing, clinical research, and other core business initiatives.

Jason is well-versed on even the most complicated regulatory challenges that his clients face. As a former research scientist in academic and pharmaceutical settings, as well as a clinical research monitor who trained physicians, Jason knows the rules firsthand. He employs this knowledge to assist clients with the full range of issues that arise in the research and development process, including drafting and negotiating research, clinical trial, licensing, and manufacturing agreements; intellectual property and technology transfer issues; collection, transfer and sharing of data, including patient registries and bio-repositories; and advising clients on mergers and acquisitions and related transactions. Jason’s clients in this area include academic medical centers, healthcare technology companies, emerging to late stage biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and other health care and research organizations.

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Linda Malek is a partner in Crowell’s Health Care and Privacy & Cybersecurity Groups, where she advises a broad array of health care and life sciences clients on compliance with federal, state, and international law governing clinical research, data privacy, cybersecurity, and fraud

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Linda Malek is a partner in Crowell’s Health Care and Privacy & Cybersecurity Groups, where she advises a broad array of health care and life sciences clients on compliance with federal, state, and international law governing clinical research, data privacy, cybersecurity, and fraud and abuse. Her clients include national hospitals systems and academic medical centers, genetic and biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, financial institutions involved in healthcare services, research foundations and international scientific organizations.

In the healthcare context, Linda is particularly focused on regulatory compliance issues related to clinical research and clinical trials. She creates and implements comprehensive policies governing the conduct of research involving human subjects, and advises clients on human subject research compliance issues. Linda also counsels on legal issues related to conducting secondary research on existing data repositories and tissue banks, including on data privacy and informed consent issues related to the ability to conduct future research. She has experience advising clients on a wide variety of research areas, including biologics, pharmacogenomics, translational research, secondary research, tissue banking, and data repositories. Linda also advises clients in general health care matters related to fraud and abuse, including issues under the Stark laws and federal and state anti-kickback statutes. Her work includes structuring complex transactions in compliance with such laws, assisting in the creation of internal compliance programs, and advising on issues related to the False Claims Act.

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    State AG Blog
  • Organization:
    Crowell & Moring LLP
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