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: published state guide pending fresh official-source re-verification.
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.