Law status
Verified comprehensive law
Yes - Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act
- Official name / citation
- 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 72 (HB 15), new sections of KRS ch. 367
- Status / effective date
- Enacted; effective January 1, 2026 per the official bill record
- Principal enforcer
- Kentucky Attorney General
Direct attached-library attribution
0 cases · $0
These totals are assigned solely by the attachment’s state heading. Shared multistate totals are not allocated in full to every state.
The attached library does not enumerate participant-level allocations for every multistate matter; shared settlement totals are presented once at the national level and are not duplicated into state totals.
Official law sources
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Other generally applicable PII law
Also: KRS 365.732 (computer security breach notification, effective July 15, 2014) - https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=43326
Public enforcement context
Tier 1
23andMe (bankruptcy claims)
$150 million in approved claims; $18 million immediate payment; Kentucky share stated as $259,375 · July 20, 2026
Kentucky joined the 42-AG 23andMe settlement over the 2023 genetic-data breach.
Legal basis: State privacy/consumer-protection claims in bankruptcy
Mapped control outcomes
1 personal data inventory/data map; 2 sensitive-data discovery; 3 downstream copy tracking; 8 breach blast-radius analysis; 9 retention/minimization; 10 regulator audit evidence
Kestryl can evidence where regulated personal data actually resides across structured stores and unstructured attachments/images, produce audit rows and evidence packs showing when each location was discovered and reviewed, and apply structured-data remediation modes (mask, vault, strip) to reduce exposure. It does not alter source attachments or documents, and its output is technical evidence supporting controls, not proof of legal compliance.
Educational information, not legal advice. The supplied snapshot is dated August 25, 2026; confirm current law, applicability, exceptions, official status, and reporting decisions with qualified counsel and the relevant authority.