South Carolina · verified through August 25, 2026

South Carolina: law status and evidence context.

Law status, direct attached-library attribution, and public enforcement context are shown separately. A zero direct total does not mean no enforcement exists.

SC · 6 requirements mapped / control outcomes supported

Law status

No verified general comprehensive law

No comprehensive consumer privacy law verified (H.4696 and S.932 were pending bills)

Official name / citation
n.a.
Status / effective date
Bills only
Principal enforcer
South Carolina 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

Other generally applicable PII law

S.C. Code § 39-1-90 (business data breach notification), effective July 1 - https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t39c001.php

Public enforcement context

Tier 1

Marriott International, Inc.

$52 million to the states; South Carolina share stated as $767,458.00 · October 9, 2024

South Carolina joined the 50-AG Marriott settlement over the Starwood breach.

Legal basis: State consumer protection, personal-information protection and breach-notification laws

Official case source (opens in a new tab)

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.