Other LanguagesWelcome to the Washington State Attorney General’s online Data Privacy Hub.
This webpage has important information for Washingtonians to learn about our state’s data privacy laws, to provide insight into the work the Attorney General’s Office is doing to enforce and improve data privacy practices within our state, and to learn about important data privacy concepts that can help consumers protect their data.
2025 Data Privacy Survey
Washingtonians generate a massive amount of personal data every day. This information is collected by a wide variety of sources, including smart devices within our homes, social media apps on our phones, and web browsers that monitor the websites we visit, the products we purchase, and the places we travel to.
In July of 2025, the Attorney General’s Office launched a Data Privacy Survey to learn about the data privacy concerns and challenges facing Washingtonians. This survey provided residents an opportunity to share what is and isn’t working with their online experiences, their feelings about and knowledge of data privacy, and what they want to see from the Attorney General’s Office and policymakers in the future.
The survey received over 700 responses from residents across our state. Survey respondents were overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the current state of data privacy policies and practices in Washington, and expressed a high level of frustration and distrust toward data collectors. Respondents broadly expressed a desire for limits on data collection and usage, as well as increased transparency in how and why data is collected.
These findings will directly inform the Attorney General’s Office’s ongoing work on data privacy issues.
See the report for more details.
Washington State’s “My Health My Data” Act
The My Health My Data Act is the first privacy-focused law in the country to protect personal health data that falls outside the purview of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Click here for more information about this important law protecting Washingtonians’ sensitive healthcare data.
Data Breach Resource Center
Washingtonians generate a massive amount of personal data every day. This information is collected by a wide variety of sources, from banks to grocery stores to state agencies. While the collection of this information can be beneficial to our day-to-day convenience, it also presents a target to cybercriminals.
Click here to learn all about the world of Data Breaches, and how they impact Washingtonians.