Law note · Alabama
Alabama Personal Data Protection Act (HB 351), general applicability and scope
APDPA will govern private-sector processing of Alabama consumers' personal data once it takes effect on May 1, 2027. It applies to a person conducting business in Alabama, or targeting products or services to Alabama residents, who controls or processes personal data of 25,000 or more Alabama consumers, excluding payment-transaction-only data, or derives more than 25% of gross revenue from selling personal data.
Broad entity- and data-level exemptions apply, including government bodies, higher-education institutions, GLBA- and HIPAA-regulated entities, small nonprofits and businesses under the applicability threshold, political committees, and employment or business-to-business data. 'Personal data' excludes deidentified data and publicly available information.
What it asks of an app
- This Act does not yet bind. Its effective date is May 1, 2027; track compliance readiness against that date rather than treating APDPA as a current duty.
- Once effective, determine whether you conduct business in Alabama or target products or services to Alabama residents, and control or process personal data of 25,000 or more Alabama consumers, or derive more than 25% of gross revenue from selling personal data, before relying on any APDPA exemption.
- Confirm whether a sector exemption applies once the Act takes effect. APDPA excludes government bodies, higher-education institutions, GLBA- and HIPAA-regulated entities, small nonprofits and businesses under the applicability threshold, political committees, and employment or business-to-business data.
When LexLint raises it
Declared activities: crawls_web, trains_models, deploys_chatbot, automated_outreach, processes_biometrics, processes_voice
Primary source: enrolled bill text, Alabama Legislative Information System (ALISON)