Tennessee Data Removal Guide (2026)
Tennessee's Information Protection Act took effect July 2025. TIPA includes a conditional affirmative defense for a written privacy program that meets the statute's NIST or comparable-framework requirements, alongside its scope, rights, cure, and enforcement rules.
Research status: this is a dated state-law snapshot; verify the current official sources before relying on a right, deadline, penalty, or complaint route.
This page is educational orientation, not legal advice. Scope, exemptions, deadlines, penalties, regulator powers and broker routes can change. Verify the current statute and state regulator guidance before relying on a right or deadline.
At a glance
- Comprehensive state privacy law
- Recorded: TIPA
- Broker response deadline
- 45 days in this research snapshot for qualifying requests; extensions and exemptions may apply
- Enforcement
- Tennessee Attorney General. Consumer Protection
Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA)
TIPA applies to controllers and processors meeting the statute's business, revenue, and consumer-data thresholds, subject to exemptions. Rights include delete, access, correct, port, and opt-out of targeted advertising, certain profiling, and sale. A qualifying written privacy program may support an affirmative defense; enforcement is exclusive to the AG, and the 60-day notice-and-cure process and penalty rules apply only under their statutory conditions.
Read the full TIPAexplainer →Scope, thresholds, exceptions, cure rules, and enforcement details where documented.
What rights do Tennessee residents have?
- →Delete, access, correct, port, opt-out
- →Conditional NIST or comparable-framework affirmative defense
- →Up to $7,500 per violation; treble damages may be available for willful or knowing violations
Where does your data leak from in Tennessee?
The FTC explains that people-search sites may combine public records, public social profiles, and information from other brokers. The examples below are a research snapshot, not an exhaustive or person-specific source map for Tennessee:
- Davidson, Shelby, Knox County property records
- Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts public search
- Tennessee DOS driver records
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What if a broker ignores your request?
If a qualifying request does not receive a response within the applicable window, review the current extension and exemption rules, then consider the Tennessee Attorney General. Consumer Protection complaint route. The authority's jurisdiction and available remedies vary.
File a complaint with Tennessee Attorney General. Consumer Protection ↗FAQ: Tennessee data removal
What is the NIST Privacy Framework affirmative defense?+
TIPA allows a controller to raise an affirmative defense when the statutory conditions for a written privacy program reasonably conforming to the NIST Privacy Framework or a comparable framework are met. The defense is fact-specific and does not guarantee that the AG will not investigate or enforce.
How long does TIPA give a controller to answer a consumer request?+
TIPA uses a 45-day response framework and permits an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and the consumer is notified. The request type, authentication, statutory exceptions, and the controller's applicable process still matter.