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New Jersey Data Privacy Law

New Jersey Data Privacy Law

New Jersey Data Privacy Law is part of the United States state privacy-law framework. It regulates covered processing of personal data about New Jersey residents and must be assessed separately from federal sectoral laws and other states' statutes.

Current official version

Effective status: January 15, 2025; additional provisions enacted June 30, 2026

Citation: N.J. Stat. ss. 56:8-166.4 et seq.; P.L.2026, c.25

Source basis: P.L.2023, c.266 together with P.L.2026, c.25, both published by the New Jersey Legislature.

Scope and applicability

The 2023 law applies to controllers doing business in New Jersey or producing products or services targeted to New Jersey residents that meet its processing thresholds. P.L.2026, c.25 adds requirements that reach specified data brokers, data collectors and sensitive-data activity beyond the original threshold model.

Thresholds must be calculated using the law's defined consumer population and lookback period. Exemptions should be recorded at entity, data and processing-activity level; an exemption covering one regulated dataset should not automatically be applied to unrelated marketing, website, workforce or customer-support data.

Consumer rights

Consumers may confirm processing, access, correct and delete data, obtain portable data and opt out of targeted advertising, sale and qualifying profiling. Controllers must honor qualifying universal opt-out mechanisms and operate an appeal process.

The operational workflow should authenticate requests without collecting excessive new data, meet the applicable response period, document extensions and denials, propagate deletion and opt-out decisions where required, and preserve evidence of the response and any appeal.

Controller and processor duties

Controllers must minimize data, limit incompatible use, secure data in storage and use, obtain sensitive-data consent, manage consent withdrawal, publish notices, contract with processors and assess processing that creates heightened risk.

Processor agreements should identify instructions, purpose, duration, data types, confidentiality, subprocessor controls, deletion or return, audit information and assistance with rights, security, breach response and assessments to the extent required by the statute.

State-specific point

P.L.2026, c.25 prohibits sale of sensitive data, imposes data-broker and data-collector registration duties, and creates substantial per-record and per-day penalties. Part of the registration framework becomes operative 270 days after June 30, 2026.

Enforcement and evidence

The New Jersey Attorney General and Division of Consumer Affairs enforce the law under the Consumer Fraud Act framework. The original mandatory cure period ended July 1, 2026.

Maintain an applicability memorandum, data map, notice versions, request and appeal logs, consent and opt-out records, processor contracts, assessment records, security evidence and a dated record of the official statutory version used. Recheck the official legislature and regulator sources before each scheduled legal review.

What this means for you

Use a shared multi-state privacy operating model, but configure it for this law's exact scope, exemptions, rights, deadlines, consent rules, opt-out signals, assessment triggers and enforcement provisions. Do not substitute a generic US privacy checklist for the state-specific controls.

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