Law status
No verified general comprehensive law
No comprehensive consumer privacy law verified (the New York Privacy Act bills S365/A4947 remain pending)
- Official name / citation
- n.a.
- Status / effective date
- Bills only
- Principal enforcer
- New York Attorney General (with the Department of Financial Services for regulated entities)
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
Other generally applicable PII law
N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 899-aa (Information Security Breach and Notification Act) - https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/GBS/899-AA
Public enforcement context
Tier 1
Eight auto insurers (American Family/Midvale, Farmers, Hagerty, The Hartford, Infinity, Liberty Mutual, Metromile, State Auto)
$14.2 million · n.a. (date not stated on page)
The AG and DFS obtained $14.2 million from insurers over data-security failures that exposed consumers' personal information in online quoting tools.
Legal basis: New York consumer protection and data-security authority (statutes not named on the page); joint action with DFS
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.