The most recent New York state legislative session was active, seeing, for example, such sweeping bills approved as the legalization of recreational cannabis use and parole reform. It was also a busy session in relation to data protection, understood as the intersection of privacy and security of personal data. Specifically, in the 2021 session, the New York legislature considered no fewer than four major data protection proposals, including an analog to the California Consumer Privacy Act, an analog to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, and the Governor's New York Data Accountability and Transparency Act budget proposal, which encompassed a number of privacy related reforms and a consumer data privacy "bill of rights."